UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 1034 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 

 and Farm Economics 

 JV^"^'«J^6. G. W. FORSTER, Acting Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



June 28, 1922 



FARM MANAGEMENT AND FARM ORGANIZATION IN 

 SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 



AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS OF 534 FARMS IN 1913, AND 550 



FARMS IN 1918. 



By H. W. Hawthoene, A-^sistant Farm Economist; H. M. Dixon, Associate 

 Farm Economist; and Frank Montgomery, Assistant Farm Economist. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



Summary of results 3 



Area studied 5 



Utilization of the land 7 



Farm organization and business 



analysis of farms 8 



Size of farms 10 



Crops grown and yields 11 



Receipts , 21 



Expenses 25 



Capital — — 28 



Page. 



Farm organization and business 

 analysis of farms — Continued. 



Farm earnings 31 



Family farms 38 



Choice of enterprises 43 



Diversity 46 



Factors affecting successful opera- 

 tion of these farms 50 



Bearing of farm organization on 



cost of producing cotton 58 



Appendix 72 



INTRODUCTION. 



THIS BULLETIN presents^ data regarding organization, pro- 

 duction, expenses, and returns of farms operated by owners and 

 tenants (renters), both white and colored. 



The studies were made to determine the significant factors that 

 make for success or failure in the management of representative 

 farms in southern Georgia. They bring out the bearing of such 

 factors as size of business and yield per acre upon profits and the 

 cost of producing cotton, and are believed to be of special significance 

 in that the repetition of the farm business analysis has made possible 



iThe method used in this business analysis study is described in Farmer's Bulletin 1139. 



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