228 HUMAN FACTORS IN COTTON CULTURE 



TABLE XIV 

 CASH INCOME OF NORTH CAROLINA FARM FAMILIES 



slightly over sixteen. The higher cash incomes for the 

 Coastal Plain farmers are due to the larger acreage in 

 cash crops, cotton and tobacco. 



This gross income, however, is supplemented by food 

 raised on the farm. This ranged from around $500 for 

 owners to around $200 for croppers. (See Table XV.) 



None of these families, averaging over five members, 

 consumed as much as two dollars worth of food per day, 

 less than forty cents per person. There were six groups 

 among tenants and croppers that consumed food to the 

 value of less than a dollar per family per day. It is 

 again noted that "the per cent of family food supply 

 raised on the farm progressively declines from landlord 

 to owner to tenant to cropper."' 



Some items in the diet are worthy of consideration. 

 For instance, the production of milk per day per person 

 reached as high as a quart only for the white landlord 

 group. For the white farmer in general, it ranged below 



Z5 lbid., pp. 17, 18. 



