FARM MAISTAGEMEISTT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 



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many other areas, because the type of farming followed (cotton) is 

 more intensive than many other types. For comparison, a group of 

 white-owner farms in Sumter County, averaging about 73 acres of 

 crops, required 38 months of man labor per farm ; a group of dairy 

 farms in Dane County, Wis., averaging 81 acres of crops, required 

 22 months, and a group of grain and live-stock farms in Clinton 

 County, Ind., averaging 93 acres of crops, required only 19 months 

 of labor. 



Only 10 per cent of the white-owner farms in 1913 and 13 per 

 cent in 1918 were operated as family farms, while 72 per cent of 

 the colored-tenant farms in 1913 and 66 per cent of those in 1918 

 were operated as such. (See Table 18.) 



Table 18.- 



-Summary of the farm business on farms operated by the farmer and 

 his family, Sumter County, Ga. 



Number of family farms 



Per cent of total farms 



Average number in family 



Number in family under 16 years 



In crops acres . . 



In cotton do 



In corn do 



In other crops do 



Cotton per acre pounds . .lint. . 



Corn per acre bushels. . 



Months of family labor 



Number of work stock 



Capital per farm 



Real estate 



W orldn?: capital 



Receipts per farm 



Expenses per farm 



Farm income 



Laborineome 



Unpaid family labor 



Family income 



Interest on indebtedness 



Family living from farm 



Number of farms mortgaged 



Cost of cotton per pound lint. . 



Cost of cotton per acre 



White owners. 



26 



10 



5 



2 



34 



15 



14 



5 



258 



11 



8 



1.6 



$3,055 



2,484 



571 



663 



404 



259 



45 



117 



376 



5 



4 

 SO. 154 

 43. 35 



36 



13 



5 



2 



37 



11 



17 



9 



176 



11 



7 



1.7 



S4,117 



3,241 



876 



1,055 



507 



548 



260 



145 



693 



3 



514 



2 



$0. 323 



65.96 



White tenants. 



18 



37 



5 



2 



37 



22 



12 



3 



187 



1.8 

 $416 



416 

 506 

 335 

 171 

 142 

 86 

 257 



6 



$0. 133 



21.01 



16 



29 



6 



2 



49 



17 



24 



8 



164 



10 



5 



1.6 



$978 



978 

 897 

 489 

 408 

 340 

 109 

 517 



$0. 305 

 35.80 



Colored owners 



26 

 7 



63 



39 



18 



6 



182 



8 



15 



2.2 



$3, 268 



2,704 



564 



1,091 



566 



525 



296 



203 



728 



45 



5 



$0. 106 

 21.77 



22 



46 



7 



3 



61 



28 



25 



8 



149 



9 



17 



2.5 



$4, 759 



3,763 



996 



1,596 



795 



801 



468 



340 



1,141 



10 



485 



3 



$0. 252 



44.72 



Colored tenants. 



1913 



134 



72 



6 



3 



47 



30 



13 



4 



198 



8 



13 



1.6 



$518 



518 

 678 

 441 

 237 

 212 

 160 

 397 



50 



$0,116 



19.57 



1918 



110 



66 



7 



3 



53 



27 



20 



6 



178 



10 



14 



1.9 



$755 



755 



1,204 



660 



544 



491 



280 



824 



1 



392 



3 



$0. 232 



33.73 



Comparing figures on organization and operation of these family 

 farms with the other farms, the family farms do not make as good a 

 showing. They have lower yields, lower returns, and provide less 

 for the family living from the farm than the farms of other classes. 



FARM MORTGAGES. 



In 1913 37 per cent of the farms operated by white owners were 

 mortgaged, while in 1918 the percentage had been reduced to 23, in 

 spite of the fact that a few changes in ownership brought into the 1918 

 group men whose mortgages tended to offset the general reduction in 

 indebtedness. (See Table 19.) At the same time the interest rate 



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