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Yearhook of the Deparfnnent of Agric%ilture^ 19M. 



Figs. 98 to 101. — The typical negi-o tenant farm.s are from 30 to 50 acres in size, 

 of which about half is in cotton. Many white farmers also have small farms, both 

 in the Cotton Belt and in the Corn and Winter Wheat Region. Farms of 50 to 100 

 acres are characteristic of the white cotton farmers in the upper Piedmont of the Caro- 

 linas and Georgia and the Black Prairie of Texas ; also of the fair to good soils of 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan. On the richer lands of the Corn Belt farms 

 of 100 to 260 acres prevail. Large farms in area — over 260 acres — are found in the 

 Great Plains and Spring Wheat regions. A two-section " dry farm " in the Great Plains 

 Region, however, is no larger in productivity than a quarter-section farm in the 

 Corn Belt (see Fig. 103). 



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