A FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 



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All calculations of cost of crop production have been based upon 

 an acre as the unit. In Table XIX the itemized acre costs, yields, 

 values and profits, and the cost per unit of each product are shown in 

 detail for all the important crops grown by the wage system; and 

 the same data for the crops grown by the cropper system are given in 

 Table XX, the costs to the cropper and to the farm operator being 

 shown here separately. The cropper's share of the costs consists 

 mainly of labor, that of himself and his family, and a small amount 

 hired, followed in order by his share of the costs of fertilizer, gin- 



Fig. 18. — For many years peanuts have been grown extensively in Brooks County, prin- 

 cipally as a crop to be " hogged off ". Only sufficient seed was harvested for planting 

 purposes and a few cash sales. Nearly all of this was " picked " by the slow hand 

 method here shown. 



ning, bagging and ties, interest on cash, and planting seed. The 

 operator's costs consist principally of mule labor, his own labor of 

 supervision, land rent, and fertilizers, while of lesser and decreasing 

 importance are the equipment cost, ginning, bagging and ties, seed, 

 and interest on cash. The cost of the operator's supervision amounts 

 to a little less than half as much as that of the manual labor, all of 

 the latter being furnished by the cropper. 1 



1 The terms of the cropper's contract, the relative yields and costs to each party, and 

 the relative yields and costs by the two systems are discussed in the first part of this 

 bulletin. 



