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BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



NUMBER OF WORK STOCK AND MONTHS OF MAN LABOR. 



The number of work stock on these farms was practically the same 

 for the two periods, but in 1918 a smaller acreage of cotton was 

 worked per mule and an increased acreage of other crops. (See Table 

 21.) This applies to both owner and tenant farms, although the 

 change was more pronounced on the white-owner farms, owing to 

 the fact that they devoted a larger proportion of the crop area to 

 crops other than cotton, and also because they utilized a large amount 

 of the crop area for second crops and interplanted crops, yet the full 

 significance of the difference in work-stock and man-labor utilization 

 on these groups of farms the yields returned should also be consid- 

 ered. (See Table 4.) 



The number of work stock and the amount of labor required for 

 operating a farm are two indications of the size of business. The 

 most labor and the most work stock was used on the white-owner 

 farms and the least on the colored-tenant farms. The wide variations 

 in the amount of labor and work stock used under the different ten- 

 ures were largely due to the difference in average crop area. Com- 

 paring 1913 and 1918, the white owners decreased the months of labor 

 slightly, while the other groups showed an increase. The white ten- 

 ants and colored owners used about one-half as much labor per farm 

 as the white owners, and the colored tenants about one-third as much. 



Table 21. 



-Work stock avd amount of labor, Sumter Count ij, Ga., 53Jf farms in 

 1913 and 550 in 1918. 



White owners. 



White tenants. 



Colored owners. 



1913 



Colored tenants. 



1918 



Number of farms 



Acres in crops 



Acres in cotton 



Acres second crop 



Acres interplanted 



Number work stock per farm , 



Acres of cotton per mule , 



Acres of other crops per mule i 



Total months' labor per farm 



Total labor represented by: 



Wage labor (percent) , 



Share cropper labor (per cent) 



Total hired labor (per cent) , 



Acres of cotton per man ,. . 



Acres of other crops per man 2. . .'. . 



Unpaid family labor (per cent) 



Farmer's labor (per cent) , 



Total unpaid labor (percent). 



Cost of hired labor per month: 



Wage labor , 



Share cropper labor , 



Value of unpaid labor per month: 



Unpaid family labor 



Farmer's labor 



268 



179 



102 



12 



9 



6.6 



15 



13 



95 



20 



S16 

 40 



280 

 181 

 69 

 18 

 54 

 6.5 

 11 

 20 

 91 



30 

 5-4 



3 



13 

 16 



$25 

 40 



$24 

 54 



2.9 

 19 

 14 



40 



28 

 33 

 61 

 16 

 12 



9 



30 

 39 



$17 

 19 



$15 

 24 



56 

 102 

 45 

 6 

 23 

 3.2 

 14 

 20 

 44 



20 

 41 

 61 

 12 

 17 



12 

 27 

 39 



$20 

 39 



31 



107 



67 



5 



9 



3.9 



17 



12 



53 



IS 

 33 

 51 

 15 

 10 



26 

 23 

 49 



$17 

 13 



$14 

 22 



48 

 111 

 53 

 7 

 25 

 4.0 

 13 

 16 

 55 



18 

 29 

 47 

 12 

 14 



31 

 22 

 53 



$26 

 30 



$21 

 31 



186 



59 



89 



1 



2 



2.1 



19 



10 



31 



10 

 10 

 20 

 15 



42 

 38 

 80 



$18 

 16 



$13 

 16 



166 

 72 

 38 

 4 

 10 



2.6 

 15 

 15 

 36 



11 

 13 

 24 

 13 

 13 



43 

 34 

 76 



$24 

 32 



$20 

 31 



1 Includes acreage used for second crops but not the acreage of interplanted crops with the main crop. 

 ' Total months of labor divided by 12. 



