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On the other hand, small grain was grown in the largest proportions 

 to all crops by the best accumulators and in the smallest proportions 

 by the poorest accumulators, in each of the three classes of tenure. 



On farms where cotton is a large proportion of all crops there are 

 seasons when practically the whole labor force and all equipment are 

 idle. These same periods are usually times when teams, tools, and 

 men can be employed profitably in small grain fields, and it is this use 

 on the mixed grain and cotton farm of (what on the cotton farm 

 would be) idle labor and equipment, that helps to swell the profits 

 on the mixed grain and cotton farm. Furthermore, when several 

 years of operation are considered, the risks from agriculture are 

 much more uniformly distributed and probably made less by the 

 mixed grain and cotton type, as against the one-crop type of agri- 

 culture. 



It will also be noted that the greatest number of animal units other 

 than work stock, the greatest number of poultry, and the greatest 

 value of garden, fruit, poultry, and dairy products used for family 

 and furnished by the farm are associated, without exception, with 

 the best accumulators in all the tenure classes. On the other hand, 

 in every case (except two) the smallest amounts of the items above 

 mentioned are associated with the poorest accumulators in each tenure 

 class. 



Table 27. 



-Relation between the diversification of farm enterprises and classes 

 of accumulators. 



Items of correlation. 



Croppers 







renants 







Owners. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



Best. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



Best. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



21 



19 



22 



65 



62 



64 



39 



31 



90.8 



83.9 



69.8 



72.1 



66.6 



64.2 



59.5 



65.8 



1.8 



2.6 



8.9 



11.7 



16.1 



19.0 



20.5 



18.6 



1.1 



1.5 



3.0 



2.3 



3.8 



4.5 



4.5 



4.5 



18 



26 



43 



50 



66 



60 



67 



64 



135 



205 



269 



314 



369 



375 



408 



457 



866 



329 



278 



279 



281 



317 



280 



292 



166 



182 



274 



255 



200 



293 



322 



330 



42.9 



25.0 



1ft 1 



25.8 



22.4 



L8.3 



20.3 



20.7 



X! 



100 



77 



94 



82 



72 



K2 



Ml 



Number of operators 



Per cent of all crop land 

 planted to cotton 



Per cent of all crop land 

 planted to small grain — 



Average number of animal 

 units other than work 

 stock ' 



Average number of poultry 

 per farm 



Average value in dollars 

 received from farm for 

 family living from garden, 

 fruit, poultry, and dairy 

 products 136 



Average value in dollars of 

 groceries bought 



Average value In dollars of 

 clothing bought 



Per cent, of all CJM -rator :•■ ho 



who reported del 



family during 1919 



i'lr cent of ail operatoi In 

 class that tued ihort time 

 credit in 1919 



'"Animal unit" a u ied here I the equivalent ol one hoi ■<■, oneoon , or 7 hogs or iheep. Poultry li no! 



included. 



Best. 



38 

 56.4 

 22.2 



7.0 

 77 



493 

 290 

 428 



27.0 



