FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 



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groups of farms shown in the table did not return over $500 labor 

 income, and a number of these returned no labor income. 



Table 12.— Farm earnings, Sumter County, Oa., 534 farms in 1913 and 550 in 



1918. 



WHITE FARMERS. 



Number of farms. 



Farm income 



Interest on capital, at 7 per cent. 



Labor income 



Operator's labor 



Per cent return on capital 



Unpaid family labor 



Family income 



Interest on indebtedness 



Family living from farm 



COLORED FARMERS. 



Number of farms. 



Farm income 



Interest on capital, at 7 per cent . 



Labor income 



Operator's labor 



Per cent return on capital 



Unpaid family labor 



Family income 



Interest on indebtedness 



Family living from farm 



Owner farms. 



1913 1918 



268 



$1,665 



1,191 



474 



476 



7.0 



42 



1,707 



126 



31 



280 



$3, 711 



1,898 



1,813 



644 



11.3 



67 



3,778 



106 



716 



$805 

 542 

 263 

 263 

 7.0 

 198 

 1,003 

 103 



$1, 778 



720 



1,058 



367 



13.7 



353 



2,131 



49 



597 



Tenant farms. 



Farm. 



1913 1918 



56 



395 

 477 

 289 



10.3 



56 



928 



0) 



186 



$556 

 224 

 332 

 198 



11.2 

 168 

 724 



0) 



$2, 113 



684 



1,429 



469 



16.9 



106 



2,219 



(1) 



560 



166 



$1,546 



424 



1,122 



367 



19.5 



307 



1,853 



(1) 



434 



Tenant. 



1913 1918 



59 



505 



289 



32.5 



56 

 620 



186 



$323 



33 



290 



198 



26.3 

 168 

 491 



56 



$1, 353 



121 



1,232 



469 



50.9 



106 



1,459 



(») 



560 



166 



75 



768 



367 



44.7 



307 



1,150 



1 



434 



Landlord. 



1913 1918 



49 



186 



$233 



56 



166 



$703 



No report on landlord's mortgages. 



2 Less than i 



(For a clear interpretation of the earnings of these groups of farms see the tables previously discussed 

 regarding crop area, capital, yields, receipts, and expenses for these same groups.) 



In 1918 the percentage of farmers making low labor incomes was 

 decreased, there being but 36 to 45 per cent with labor incomes of 

 $500 or under. In 1913 less than 10 per cent of the farmers in any 

 tenure made over $2,000 labor income, while in 1918 26 per cent of 

 the white owners, 21.5 per cent of the white tenants, 17 per cent of 

 the colored owners, and 7 per cent of the colored tenants made over 

 $2,000 labor income. Considering all farms in 1913, 72 per cent 

 failed to make over $500 labor income and only 5 per cent made over 

 $2,000. In 1918 only 43 per cent failed to make over $500, and 19 

 per cent made over $2,000. 



It should be borne in mind that in this area there are a number of 

 farms with a very large business. There were 71 farms with over 

 250 acres of crops in 1913 and 76 in 1918. There were 38 farms 

 making 100 bales or more of cotton in 1913 and 23 in 1918. Three 

 farms were found in 1913 with over $100,000 capital and 14 in 1918. 

 These farms represented very large businesses and their earnings 

 were much higher than those of smaller farms. Of 26 farmers mak- 

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