STUDY' Of GAUMING IN SUMTER COUNTY, GEORGIA. 



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Table IV. — Area, capital, receipts, expense*, and income on farms of different 

 tenures. Sumter County, Ga. 





Number 

 of farms. 



Tilled 

 area. 



Capital. 



Receipts. 



Ex- 

 penses. 



Farm 



income. 



Labor 



income. 



White: 



160 



38 

 70 

 49 



12 



11 



8 



186 



Acres. 

 158 

 168 

 394 



85 



95 



77 



307 



59 



$13,773 



10,521 



20,883 



890 



5,984 



3,043 



15,998 



491 



$4,097 

 4, 594 

 0,400 

 1,572 



1,059 



1,040 



3, 107 



902 



82, 555 



2,790 



3, 903 



980 



977 



955 



1,812 



566 



$1,542 



1,798 



2,437 



592 



G82 



691 



1,295 



336 



$853 



Owners additional 



Owners part rented out 



1,272 



1 , 093 

 547 



Colored: 



383 





539 



Owners part rented out 



495 

 312 







The 160 farms operated by white owners, having an average of 

 158 acres of tilled land and with an investment of $13,773, returned 

 an average farm income of $1,542. Deducting interest on invest- 

 ment the owners have left, on the average, $853 as labor income. De- 

 ducting from the farm income the value of the farmer's labor, these 

 farms show a return of 8 per cent on investment. 



There were 38 farms operated by white owners renting additional 

 land. On the average these men operated 168 acres of tilled land, 

 but owing to 30 per cent of the farm area being rented, the average 

 investment of these men was lower than that of the 160 owners. The 

 average investment on these farms was $10,521, with a farm income 

 of $1,798 and a labor income of $1,272. These men realized 12.6 per 

 cent upon capital invested. 



The 70 farms operated by white owners renting a part of their 

 farming land out were the largest farms found in this study. These 

 farms averaged 391 tilled acres, of which 41 per cent was rented out. 

 The investment averaged $26,883, labor income $1,093, and interest 

 on investment 7 per cent. 



Forty-nine of the farms were operated by white tenants. These 

 farms averaged 85 acres of tilled land, and with an average of 

 $890 capital they returned a farm income of $592 and a labor income 

 of $547. Several white tenants w T ere found in this area who owned 

 small farms, but who, in order to do a larger business, had leased 

 their own farms and were operating large rented farms. 



It will be noted from Table IV that in all classes of tenure the 

 farms operated by colored farmers are smaller than those operated 

 by white farmers of the same tenure. 



Thirty-one of the farms were owned by colored farmers. Of this 



number 12 were operated as owner farms, with an average size of 95 



tilled acres; average investment w T as $5,984; farm income, $682; and 



labor income, $383. Eleven of the farms owned by colored farmers 



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