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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



TABLE 8. 

 Agricultural statistics of eastern red hills by race and tenure, 1910. 



The number of horses per farm, and per acre, has de- 

 clined considerably, and that of mules has increased corre- 

 spondingly. The number of sheep has declined rapidly with 

 the increase of cultivated land and consequent passing away 

 of the free range. In 1850 the average farm was a two- 

 horse farm (as compared with the four-horse farms of the 

 western division), and now it is a one-mule farm, although 

 there are nearly three times as many white as negro farm- 

 ers.* About half of the white farmers and five-sixths of 

 the colored ones are tenants; and over seven-eighths of the 

 owners and three-fifths of the tenants are white. 



The leading crops in 19C9, in order of value, were cotton, 

 corn, peanuts, "vegetables," sweet potatoes, sugar-cane, 

 oats, hay, cowpeas, and Irish potatoes. Peanuts, which 

 ranked third then, have increased enormously since the boll- 



*This illustrates what seems to be a universal principle in the 

 South; namely, in regions or counties where whites are in the major- 

 ity the negroes tend to concentrate in the towns, and vice versa. Or 

 in other words, the numbers of the two races, no matter which pre- 

 dominates, are more nearly equal in any town than in the surrounding 

 country. 



fin the amount of labor required per acre peanuts and cotton are 

 almost exactly equal, which facilitates the change from one crop to 

 the other. 



