AGRICULTURE. 



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though their crops are not separated from the rest in the 

 markets ; but there is no statement as to whether any negro 

 farmers were interviewed or not.) That bulletin indicates 

 with reasonable certainty, however, a decline in the relative 

 importance of cotton and an increase of most other crops, 

 especially peanuts and hay. 



Table 38 lists all but the least important crops, in ap- 

 proximately the same order as in the census reports, with 

 the estimated percentage that each makes of the total crop 

 values of each region and the whole State. The percentages 

 are given only to the nearest tenth, so that all below .05 are 

 represented by 0. 



TABLE 38. 



Relative importance (with percentages to the nearest tenth) of dif* 

 ferent crops in the several regions of southern Alabama, 1909. 



As can be quickly ascertained by picking out the bold- 

 face figures, cotton is (or was) most important in the red 

 hills and lime-sink region and almost unknown near the 



