The Negro's Agricultural Opportunity 65 



laborers except that gained on the parental farm. They are 

 probably more keenly alive to the advantages of the per- 

 manent forms of tenure, more of them have available cap- 

 ital, and when they once become an independent renter 

 they are less likely to fail and be forced back into the 

 share or labor status. For these reasons the increase in 

 white cash tenants is almost equal to the increase in share 

 tenants. 



The United States Census did not before 1900 enumerate 

 the number of tenants according to color. For the past 

 two census periods, however, the distribution has been as 

 follows : 6 



TABLE 7. 



Georgia: Farms Classified by Tenure and Color of Farmer. 



-White- 



-Negro- 



Number of Farms 

 Operated by 



co <u 



a 



m 



1910 



1900 



Increase 



Per cent increase. . 

 Per cent of all Farms 



operated 1910 



^1900 



84,226 



78,548 



5,678 



6.6 



50.0 



55.4 



31,908 



24,022 



7,886 



32.8 



18.9 

 16.9 



52,334 



39,295 



13,039 



33.6 



31.1 

 27.7 



15,821 



11,583 



4,238 



38.0 



13.0 



14.0 



50,479 



34,728 



15,751 



46.0 



41.1 

 42.0 



56,259 



36,515 



19,744 



55.0 



45.9 

 44.0 



It is therefore evident that all classes of farmers among 

 both Negroes and white people are on the increase. The 

 differential rate of increase is also to be noted. The colored 

 share tenants show an increase of 55 per cent, the cash 

 tenants of 46 per cent and the owners of 38 per cent. On 

 the other hand the increase in all white farmers was not so 



8 Brooks, Agrarian Revolution, opp. cite p. 122, corrected with 

 revised figures. Census 1910, Agriculture. Vol. V, p. 212. 



