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Fig. 116. — The largest numl)Pr cif farms opex'ated l).v negro mvner.s i.^ found in eastern 

 Viiginia. southeastern South Carolina, and northeastern Texas, all areas of cheap land, 

 in Virginia there are almost twice as many farms operated by negro owners as hy negro 

 tenants, and in Florida the numbers are" alx)ut equal, but in the Cotton Belt "tenant.^ 

 greatly exceed owners in number (see Fig. 117). Of the 233,222 farms in the United 

 States operated by negro and non-white owners, only 9,153 are in the North and West. 

 However, 71 per cent of the negro and non-white farmers in the North and West own 

 their farms, as compared with 24 per cent in the South. The dots in the western States 

 represent mostly farms owned and operated by Indians, Chinese, and Japanese. 



Fig. 117. — The negro tenant and cropper farms or holdings are located mostly in the 

 Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, in the Black I'rairie of Alabama, and in (he upper Coastal 

 Plain and Piedmont of Georgia and the CaJifornias — districts having the richest .soils in 

 the old South. Many of these " farms " are merely allotments to croppers on phmta- 

 tions, the owner of the plantation furnishing the " cropper " with his mule, his farm 

 implements, and sometimes, even, with food, until the crop is " made " in the fall and 

 the proceeds divided between them. Negro tenants are much fewer in Texas becau.^e 

 of historical reasons. The dots shown in California represent mostly Japanese and 

 Chinese tenant farmers. 



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