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BULLETIN 492, U. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



received a labor income of $2,725. In order to have operated a farm 

 of this size as an owner additional he would have needed $21,000 

 capital and as a straight owner over $25,000. 1 



The relation of capital to profit indicated in Table VI holds true in 

 other regions where studies of this nature have been carried on. The 

 men with the most capital are, as a rule, making the highest labor 

 incomes. This, however, does not mean that all the men with a large 

 amount of capital are making large labor incomes. More capital 

 gives additional chances for a larger volume of business, but unless 

 the quality and efficiency of this business is up to the normal, the less 

 business a man does the less he is liable to lose. 



CROPS RAISED 



PERCENTAGE. OFTOTAL TILLED AREA 



IO 20 30 4-0 50 



COTTON 



CORN 



OATS 



WHEAT &RYE 



COWPEA HAY & SEED » 



OTHER HAY&FORAGE 



PEANUTS 



SORGHUM 



SUGAR CANE 



SWEET POTATOES 



WATERMELONS 



GARDEN & TRUCK 



FRUIT &. NUTS 



riR&T rrn 6tco 



CRO» m CRC 



Fig. 4.- 



-Proportion of tilled area devoted to different crops (160 white-owner farms, 

 Sumter County, Ga.). 



RELATION OF TENURE TO DISTRIBUTION OF CROP AREA. 



The long growing season, together with other favorable conditions, 

 enables the farmers of this area to grow a large variety of crops and 

 in many cases to use the land for more than one crop during the year. 

 The length of the growing season for the year 1913 was 207 clays. 

 The crops are raised under the wage-hand and share-cropper systems 

 of handling labor. Under the wage-hand system all the labor is per- 



: The tenant is at a disadvantage if farming in a region where the land is increasing in 

 value. If the land is increasing or likely to increase in value a tenant would be better 

 off to invest what capital he is able to secure in land, even though the size of his business 

 and profits are lower than as a tenant. In computing the labor income the increase in 

 land value is not taken into consideration. 



