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of the farms for which these extremes of cost were found for a given 

 •year is of little value, as the data show they are not typical. In any 

 area and for any year some farms will be found ranging exceptionally 

 high and others exceptionally low, and while figures from such farms 

 are of interest in showing how far a few farms will vary from the 

 mode or average, the important study is of the larger bulk of farms 

 that have production costs within a more usual range. Tables 33 and 

 34 show that in 1913 10 per cent of the farms produced cotton at a 

 cost of 8 cents or less per pound, while another 10 per cent had costs 

 above 18 cents, leaving 80 per cent of the farms with costs ranging 

 from 9 to 18 cents. In 1918 10 per cent of the farms produced cotton 

 at 15 cents per pound, while 10 per cent had costs above 36 cents, leav- 

 ing 80 "per cent of the farms with costs ranging from 16 to 36 cents. 

 In 1913 about two-thirds of the farms produced cotton at 13 cents 

 or less per pound, the largest number producing at 10 cents. In 

 1918 two-thirds of the farms produced cotton at 27 cents or less per 

 pound, the largest number producing at 23 cents. After eliminating 

 the extreme farms, these tables still show a rather wide range in costs 

 each year, and particularly for 1918. 



Table 33. — Variation in cost of producing lint cotton on 5SIf farms, Sumter 



County, Ga., 1913. 



Net cost per pouud of lint 

 Gotten. 



$0. 



«0. 



SO, 



Total. 



Farms. 



Total 

 number 



per 

 group. 



Cumula- 

 tive 

 per 

 cent. 



0.19 

 .75 

 2.06 

 5.80 

 10.11 

 19.10 

 32.58 

 42.88 

 53.93 

 65.35 

 73.78 

 79.77 

 85.39 

 88.38 

 89.50 

 91.56 

 93.62 

 95.68 

 96.24 

 98.' 11 

 98.30 

 98.67 

 98.86 

 99.05 

 99.24 

 99.43 

 99.62 

 99.81 

 100. 00 



534 



Acreage. 



Total 



per 



group. 



47 

 113 

 361 

 1,232 

 1,331 

 3,353 

 5, 333. 5 

 8,432 

 4, 068 ' 

 4, 868. 5 

 3,362 

 1,795 

 1,425.25 

 1,211 

 269 

 344 



273. 75 



.525 



97 



310 



7 



273 



24 



25 



6 



6.5 

 20 

 65 

 15 



Cumula- 

 tive 

 per 



cent. 



0.12 

 .41 

 1.33 

 4.47 

 7.87 

 16.42 

 30.08 

 51.54 

 61.92 

 74.34 

 82.92 

 87.50 

 91.14 

 94.23 

 94.92 

 95.80 

 96.50 

 97.84 

 98.09 

 98.88 

 98.90 

 99.60 

 99.66 

 99.72 

 99.73 

 99.75 

 99.80 

 99.96 

 100.00 



39, 192. 5 



Production. 



Total 

 pounds 

 lint per 

 LToup. 



11, 880 



36,800 



96, 000 



336, 675 



374, 100 



962, 680 



1,441,555 



2,422,800 



1,031,550 



1,240,415 



771, 830 



417, 675 



328, 310 



263, 500 



62, 000 



60,225 



55,500 



91,100 



17,000 



51,000 



1,000 



29,450 



3,000 



2,275 



2,250 



1,000 



3,000 



4,875 



1, 500 



Cumula- 

 tive 

 per 

 cent. 



0.12 

 .48 

 1.43 

 4.76 

 8.46 

 17.97 

 32.21 

 56.15 

 66.34 

 78.60 

 86.23 

 90.36 

 93. 60 

 96.20 

 96.81 

 97.41 

 97.96 

 98.86 

 99.03 

 99.53 

 99.54 

 99. &3 

 99.86 

 99.88 

 99.90 

 99.91 

 99.94 

 99.99 

 100.00 



10,120,945 



Average cost per poimd lint 



Average soiling price per pound lint. 



$0. 118 

 .122 



