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white farmers are farming more land than the colored 

 farmers not by increasing the area of cotton, but by adding 

 on other crops. This also enables them to use their work 

 animals to a better advantage. Each work animal raises 

 8 more acres of crops than in Dallas County. By carrying 

 this a little farther, and by adding on more live-stock and 

 with a little day help, a white family that has a grown 

 son can raise 100 acres of crops, about one-fourth of which 

 is cotton. There are a considerable number of farmers 

 scattered throughout the South who are doing this. If 

 there are no sons a hired man by the year will be 

 needed. 



In general, the area in crops, as well as the yield per acre, 

 must be increased before the individual worker in the 

 South can be very prosperous. Most of the white farmers 

 of the South lack capital and many of them lack the edu- 

 cation necessary for efficiency. 1 The South can never 

 prosper so long as it drives a one-mule team. 



175. A truck-growing region. Gloucester County, 

 New Jersey, is a region largely devoted to truck crops. 

 In this county the number of farms of over 100 acres has 

 decreased. Farms of 50-99 acres are most numerous, 

 but there are more farms of less than 50 acres than there 

 are of over 100 acres. The average size of the farm has de- 

 creased slightly in the past 40 years. In 1910, there 

 were 62 acres per farm or 47 acres of improved land. There 

 was an average of 14 acres of potatoes, sweet potatoes, 

 and vegetables, and 16 acres of other crops per farm. 



Small grain has almost disappeared from this county. 

 A small area of corn and hay continues to be grown for 



'North Carolina, Bulletin 84 calls the "one-horse farm" the chief 

 enemy of progressive agriculture. See also U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, Bulletin 259, p. 18. 



