8 BULLETIN 492, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A general idea of the way in which the land in this county is util- 

 ized may be formed by a glance at figure 3. Crop land occupies some- 

 thing over one-half (54.2 per cent) and woodland about one-third 

 (32.6 per cent) of the total farm area. The remainder of the land is 

 in waste, pasture, and idle crop land, the idle crop land occupying 

 almost as much as the pasture land, and the waste land occupying a 

 little more than these two combined. 



In Table I the 268 farms operated by white owners are, arranged 

 in six groups by size of farm, in order to show the utilization of land 

 and the value of real estate per acre on farms of different size. The 

 farms in these groups vary in average size from a total farm area 

 of 63 acres with 33 acres of crops in the first-size group, to a total 

 of 1,625 acres with 827 acres of crops in the last-size group. 



DISTRIBUTION 

 OF FARM AREA 



PER CENT OF TOTAL AREA 

 10 20 30 40 50 



CROP LAND 

 WOOD 

 WASTE 

 PASTURE " 



IDLE CROP " 



i ii 1 r 



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Fig. 3. — Percentage distribution of land area on 268 farms, Sumter County, Ga. 



Table I. — Utilization of land and value of real estate per acre on 268 farms 

 operated by white owners, owners additional, and owners with part rented out 

 (Sumter County, Ga.). 



Item. 



Groups of farms based 



on tilled 



area per 



farm. 



50 acres 



51 to 



100 



101 to 

 150 



151 to 

 250 



251 to 

 450 



Over 

 450 





acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



acres. 



36 



64 



56 



47 



30 



35 



63 



151 



201 



325 



566 



1,025 



33 



77 



123 



197 



321 



827 



60.2 



55.6 



65.4 



65. 9 



61.0 



54.3 



52.0 



51.3 



61.3 



60.7 



56.7 



50.9 



5.9 



2.5 



2.2 



1.6 



2.6 



1.1 



2.4 



2.9 



2.6 



4.4 



2.7 



2.4 



30.7 



36.3 



25.1 



23.7 



31.3 



36.5 



9.0 



7.0 



8.8 



9.6 



6.7 



9.1 



$34.00 



$34. 00 



$39. (10 



$40.00 



$37.00 



$31.00 



All 

 farms. 



Number of farrow 



Area per farm acre 



Tilled area per farm do. . 



Per cent of farm in — 



'finable land 



Crops 



Idle crop land 



Pasture 



Woodland 



Waste land 



Value of real estate per acre 



268 

 419 



227 



58.4 



54.2 



1.9 



2.7 



32.6 



8.6 



$34.00 



While there is some variation among the groups in the proportion 

 of land that is tillable, there is no direct relation between the size of 

 farm and tillable area. The table shows that 58.4 per cent of all the 

 farm area is tillable, and that two of the size-groups, that of from 51 

 to 100 acres and that of over 450 acres, fall below this proportion, 



