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The two curves for the whole State are shown in full; 

 but to treat those for all the regions in the same way, on a 

 scale small enough to bring them within the limits of a 

 page, would crowd them too close together. The regional 

 curves are therefore plotted on a scale about twice as large, 

 and their extremities left off. On each curve the point cor- 

 responding to the regional average is marked by a cross, 

 and this shows that about one-fourth of the farms are above 

 the average in size and three-fourths below. 



SIZE-OF-FARM CURVES, 1910 



FIG. 28. Graph showing gradations of farm sizes for white and 

 colored farmers in different parts of southern Alabama and in the 

 whole State, 1910. 



It will be noticed that in the State as a whole about 8 per 

 cent of the colored farmers had larger farms (whether 

 owned or rented) than the average white farmer. In the 

 eastern red hills this figure rises to 16 per cent, while in 

 the western division it sinks to about 5 per cent, which is a 

 minimum as far as the area treated is concerned, but prob- 

 ably not as low as in the near-by black belt. This again 

 agrees perfectly with what has already been brought out 

 about the relation between the numerical strength and ef- 

 ficiency of the two races. 



If similar data were only available for number of im- 

 proved acres, value of farm land and buildings, number of 

 domestic animals, etc., the resulting curves would doubtless 

 have the same general form, being steepest in the highest 

 portions, and this seems to be a fundamental relation for 



