AGRICULTURE. 



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The Civil War broke up many of the old plantations, 

 and left the owners "land poor." (Compare the farm land 

 values of 1880 with those of 1860.) The former slaves gen- 

 erally remained where they were, but their social and eco- 

 nomic status having been changed, it was difficult for the 

 census enumerators in 1870 to determine which ones were 

 farm owners or tenants and which were hired laborers, and 



1850 



1860 



1880 



1890 



1900 



1910 



FIG. 27. Graph showing ratios of total and improved farm land 

 to the total area of each region large enough to get statistics for, and 

 the same for the whole State; 1850 to 1910. The numbers at the 

 sides are percentages. 



