STUDY OF FARMING IN SUMTER COUNTY, GEORGIA. 13 



and 16 per cent tenants. Of the colored farmers 86 per cent were 

 tenants, 6 per cent owners, 5 per cent owners renting additional land, 

 and 3 per cent owners renting out a part of their farming land. (See 

 Table II.) 



One-sixth of the farms operated by white owners contained less 

 than 50 acres of tilled land, one-half of them between 51 and 150 

 acres, and about one-third over 150 acres. About 1 out of every 15 

 of these farms contained over 450 acres of tilled land. 



There were 38 farms operated by white owners additional, and 21, 

 or more than one-half of them, had not over 100 acres of crops. 

 However, about one-fifth of them had over 450 acres of crops, or a 

 considerably higher proportion than of the owners. 



The white-owner farms with part of the land rented out were the 

 largest farms found in this area. Only about one-fifth of these farms 

 have less than 100 acres of crops, nearly half of them over 250 acres, 

 and about one-fourth over 450 acres. 



Two-thirds of the white tenants had less than 100 acres of crops 

 and only about one-tenth of them had over 150 acres. The largest 

 farm of this tenure contained 323 acres of crops. 



Table II. — Relation of tenure to size of farm- (53 4 farms, Sumter County, Ga.). 





Number of farms under each specified area group. 





Tenure. 



50 acres 

 and 

 less. 



51 to 



100 



acres. 



101 to 



150 

 acres. 



151 to 



250 

 acres. 



251 to 

 450 



acres. 



Over 



450 



acres. 



Total. 



White: 



25 

 6 

 5 



17 



1 



2 



41 

 15 

 8 

 17 



7 

 6 



40 

 4 

 12 

 10 



3 

 2 

 1 



18 



31 

 3 



13 

 3 



1 

 1 

 3 

 4 



12 

 3 



15 

 2 



11 



17 



160 





38 





70 





49 



Colored: 



12 









11 





3 



1 



8 





96 



68 



1S6 









There were but 12 colored-owner farms, and only 1 of these had 

 over 150 tilled acres. These are comparatively small farms, two- 

 thirds of them having less than 100 acres of crops. 



The 11 farms of the colored-owners-additional class were dis- 

 tributed as to size practically the same as those of the colored owners. 

 All the farms operated by colored owners with part of their land 

 rented out had more than 100 acres of tilled land and one-half had 

 over 250 acres 



