A FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 7 



tioned the results of this survey represent a close approximation 

 to average conditions. It is true, however, that the cattle market 

 was somewhat low, but this affected appreciably the income from 

 only three of the farms. Also the price of hogs was slightly 

 depressed, but not sufficiently so to warrant substitutions. 



Numerous losses from hog cholera occurred throughout the county, 

 and on a few of the farms studied such losses were serious, but taken 

 together these losses represented approximately the average losses 

 from that source during the preceding years. 



TYPE OF FARMING. 



Table II shows how the farm area is divided. The 106 farms 

 surveyed average in size 331 acres, of which less than half, or 145 

 acres, are devoted to planted crops. Scarcely any idle crop land 



ITEMS 



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INVESTMENT PER FARM 



* 1000 2000 3000 4000 500O $6000 



REAL E.STAT E 

 LIV E STOCK 

 FEED & SUPPLIES 

 IMPLEMENTS aM'CH'RV 

 CASH 



*67&8 

 1064 

 675 

 331 



134 



75.5 

 11.8 

 7.5 

 3.7 

 1.5 



»4910 ' »l!5+ ' *300 *3&4- 



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*339 *G65 



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. Fig. 4. — Distribution of farm investment. 



is found, and less than 2 acres per farm of pasture in rotation. 

 Permanent pasture, other than woods pastured, includes less than 

 8 acres per farm, slightly more than half of which is tillable. The 

 remaining farm area (see fig. 3), or 53.3 per cent of the total acreage, 

 consists of woods and waste land. About one-fifth of the woods 

 and waste land, or 11.4 per cent of the total farm area, either can 

 not be brought under cultivation at all, or not without a large outlay, 

 since it consists of roads, ponds, and swampy areas near the streams. 

 A like area of the woodland is fenced and utilized as pasture, leav- 

 ing exactly one-fifth of the farm area in woodland that could be 

 cleared but is actually used only as a source of wood, lumber, and 

 turpentine, and as a public range. The woodland, if fenced, fur- 

 nishes a low-grade pasture which serves mainly to tide the live stock 

 over the late winter, spring, and early summer period when the 

 crop area as now organized does not provide sufficient pasturage. 

 The imfenced woodland serves a like purpose, it being a common 

 practice to allow cattle and hogs to graze the public roads and 

 range. The woodland is covered for the most part with longleaf 

 pine, some of which is being turpentined preparatory to lumbering 

 and clearing, while more is held as a source of firewood and future 

 lumber supply. Several turpentine stills and sawmills are in opera- 

 tion in the county. 



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