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farms in Catawba County, North Carolina, Sumter 

 County, Georgia, in 1918, and Jones County, Mississippi, 

 in 1919 gave interesting results. The value of all items 

 furnished from the farm ranged from $471 for 214 Ne- 

 gro families to $690. The values per adult were $80, 

 $110, $121, and $153 per year. The southern farmers 

 in spite of larger families exceed the averages for the 

 county in value of food and fuel but were excelled in 

 value of house rent and total value for each adult. 



These are exceptional southern farms in well balanced 

 agricultural areas. The food produced per farm is thus 

 tabulated and compared with averages for 7,738 farms 

 in selected localities in the United States. 68 



Southern farms exceed in the production of corn, po- 

 tatoes, sirup, butter, milk, pork, and vegetables. They 

 are exceeded by the United States averages in beef, 

 poultry, and eggs. (See Table XIX.) 



Table XX (page 246), represents the average annual 

 food consumption of 255 farm families located in North 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. It shows many of the 

 characteristics of the southern dietary in the predomi- 

 nance of pork over beef, but is rather noticeable in its 

 omission of collards and the use of more flour than 

 corn meal. 67 



There exists plenty of evidence to show that on the 

 vast majority of southern farms such a dietary remains 

 an unattained ideal. Typical of much Cotton Belt farm- 

 ing are the conditions found by the Augusta (Georgia) 

 Survey to be true of its county, Richmond. With the 



66 Ibid., Table 2, p. 8. 



67 C. L. Goodrich, from Producing Family and Farm Supplies on 

 the Cotton Farm, Farmers' Bulletin 1015, p. 4. 



