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BULLETIN" 648, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ket conditions. Yields in Brooks County for the year covered by 

 this study (1914) were approximately normal for all crops except 

 cotton, which made yields somewhat above the average. This high 

 yield would tend to a certain extent to present results bearing on 

 the cotton crop in a too favorable light. 



However, the market price of cotton during the year studied was 

 low, owing to conditions growing out of the European war. The 

 average 5-year price received by these 106 farmers was estimated 

 by them to be 10.4 cents per pound of gross lint, whereas for the 

 1914 crop they received 7.1 cents, or about 32 per cent below normal. 

 Undoubtedly this estimated 5-year price of cotton was conservative, 

 a fact which would tend to counterbalance the effect of the rather 



Fig. 3. — Woodland constitutes approximately half of the farm area. The prevailing 

 timber is the long leaf pine, which is rapidly being turpentined. 



large yield. To correct the effect of this abnormality, the average 

 price received by each farmer for cotton during the preceding 5-year 

 period was substituted for the 1914 price in figuring the returns 

 from the farm. 



The price of watermelons fell during the shipping season to a 

 low figure, with the result that many of the farmers, particularly 

 those who had a late crop, received a very low price for a part of 

 the crop, and many melons which otherwise would have been mar- 

 ketable were not even harvested. The average price received for 

 the melons sold from farms studied was $52.11 per carload, whereas 

 the estimated average 5-year price amounted to $57.80. In every 

 case where the price received was abnormal, the farmer's estimated 

 5-year average price was substituted. 



Market conditions were normal for all crops sold except cotton 

 and melons, and it is believed that with these substitutions men- 



