24 BULLETiisr 1034, u. s. departme:n't of ageiculture. 



the white-owner farms, where cotton and seed represented 83.3 per 

 cent of the total receipts in 1913 and but 73.4 per cent in 1918. The 

 colored farmers, both owners and tenants, showed the least change in 

 organization for the two periods, and both white and colored tenants 

 showed less change than white or colored owners, respectively. Con- 

 sidering all farms, the per cent of receipts from cotton dropped from 

 83 per cent in 1913 to 75 per cent in 1918. This relative decrease in 

 receipts from the cotton enterprise has been compensated for largely 

 by the extension of the corn, peanut, and hog enterprises. 



The distribution of receipts for the two periods does not indicate 

 clearly the actual changes that have taken place in the organization of 

 the farms unless there is also taken into consideration the relative sizes 

 of the enterprises for each period, as shown in Table 2, since the rela- 

 tive prices of these products vary, and this variation affects the per- 

 centage returns from the various enterprises. On the white-owner 

 farms the area devoted to cotton decreased 33 per cent, but the price 

 of cotton increased from about 12 cents per pound in 1913 to about 29 

 cents in 1918, and cotton seed from $26.26 per ton to $69.07. The price 

 of cotton and seed increased to a greater extent than the prices of 

 other products sold, and thus returns from cotton were relatively high, 

 even though the amount for sale was considerably less than in 1913. 

 More feed crops and soil fertility crops were raised. 



While the increased production of corn in 1918 was accompanied 

 by an increased production of hogs, the farmers, nevertheless, were 

 able to sell a larger quantity of com than before. However, corn i^ 

 not promising as a commercial crop in this area, owing to the low 

 yields obtained. Receipts from corn increased from 3 per cent in 

 1913 to 5 per cent in 1918 on white-owner farms and from 2.1 per 

 cent to 4.1 per cent on white-renter farms. Colored operators de- 

 voted about the same proportion of area to corn as white operators, 

 and increased their acreage in 1918 in nearly the same proportion, but 

 as their yields were very low both years they had little corn to sell. 



In 1913 practically no peanuts were grown for market in the area, 

 but in 1918 they yielded 4 per cent of the receipts on white-owner 

 farms and 3.4 per cent on white-renter farms. Colored operators, 

 however, as previously pointed out, gave little attention to this enter- 

 prise, realizing less than 1 per cent of their receipts from this source 

 in 1918. 



The other crop sales were of very minor importance, wheat, oats, 

 hay, sirup, sweet potatoes, watermelons, tobacco, and a few others, 

 including fruit, nuts, and vegetables, aggregating less than 3 per cent 

 of the total receipts for all classes of operators in 1913 and less than 

 4 per cent in 1918. 



The receipts from live stock and live-stock products are of small 

 but growing importance. This is especially true of hogs, which are 



