FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 



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an inexpensive and easy means of increasing crop yields, as well as 

 crop acreages ; and undoubtedly this practice will be, and should be, 

 followed in greater measure on many farms in this area. Corn lends 

 itself to the practice of interplanting better than any other crop 

 common to this area. (See Table 3.) 



Table 3. — Percentage of corn acreage interplanted with other crops, Sumter 

 County, Georgia, 1918, 550 farms. 





Acres 



in corn 



per 



farm. 



Per cent of corn acreage interplanted with— 



Per 

 cent of 



corn 

 acreage 



not 

 Inter- 

 planted 





Velvet 

 beans. 



Cow- 

 peas. 



Pea- 

 nuts. 



Velvet 

 beans 

 and 

 cow- 

 peas. 



Velvet 

 beans 

 and 

 pea- 

 nuts. 



Cow- 

 peas 

 and 

 pea- 

 nuts. 



Velvet 

 beans, 

 cow- 

 peas, 

 and 

 pea- 

 nuts. 



Total. 



White owners: 



Wage corn 1 



Cropper corn 



35 

 34 



40 



28 



17 

 22 



2 

 3 



7 

 5 



9 

 4 



1 



1 



1 



1 



77 

 64 



23 

 30 



Total corn 



69 



35 



20 



2 



6 



6 



1 



1 



71 



29 



White tenants: 



Wage corn 1 



Cropper corn 



26 

 15 



25 

 31 



26 

 10 



6 



1 



2 



3 



1 





63 

 42 



37 

 58 













Total corn 



41 



27 



20 



4 



1 



2 



1 





55 



45 



Colored owners: 



Wage corn 1 



Cropper corn 



33 

 12 



12 

 2 



35 

 37 



5 



3 



2 



4 





61 

 39 



39 

 61 















Total corn 



45 



10 



35 



4 



2 



1 



3 





55 



45 



Colored tenants: 



Wage corn i 



Cropper corn 



23 

 3 



13 

 16 



20 

 16 



3 

 1 



2 



1 



1 





40 

 33 



60 

 67 













Total corn 



26 



14 



20 



2 



1 



1 



1 





39 



61 



* Wage corn is that grown by wage hands and by the farmer and his family. 



In 1918, 35 per cent of the corn acreage of the white owners was 

 interplanted with velvet beans, 20 per cent with cowpeas, and 16 per 

 cent with other crops, making in all 71 per cent of the com area 

 interplanted with other crops. The white tenants and colored owners 

 each interplanted 55 per cent of the corn acreage with other crops, 

 while the colored tenants utilized only 39 per cent of the com area for 

 these crops. Velvet beans were used more extensively on the owner 

 farms than on the tenant farms. 



CROP YIELDS. 



Cotton, the small grains, cowpea hay, and cane sirup gave lower 

 yields in 1918 than in 1913, corn about the same yields each year, and 

 peanuts and sweet potatoes higher yields in 1918 than in 1913. As a 

 rule, the wage land returned higher yields than the cropper land. 

 (See Table 4.) 



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