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BULLETIN 651, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Cattle have barely held their own in Anderson County, there being 

 18,499 in 1840 and 18,530 in 1910. As compared with population, 

 they have decreased in relative numbers and importance. Sheep 

 have declined from 10,387 in 1840 to 245 in 1910, while in the same 

 period hogs declined from 36,381 to 11,163. These figures for live 

 stock in 1840 are hardly comparable with the 1910 census, however, 

 as the last census was taken in April, while in other years the census 

 was taken in June, thus including a larger number of young stock. 



Table XIX. — Percentage of area devoted to principal crops, by decades, Anderson County, 



S. C. 



Crop. 



1840a 



1850a 



1860a 



1870a 



1880 



1890 



1900 



1910 



112 farms, 

 Bclton 



area, 

 Anderson 

 County, 



1914. 





12.8 

 69.9 

 7.0 

 10.3 



10.6 

 63.9 

 16.3 

 9.2 



12.7 

 72.2 

 3.6 

 11.5 



21.7 



61.8 



5.1 



11.4 



43.5 



35.5 



9.1 



11.9 



52.3 



30.1 



10.0 



7.6 



59.5 



28.1 



4.2 



8.2 



63.3 

 25.9 

 8.4 

 2.4 



63.1 





23.6 



Oats 



12.1 



Wheat 



1.8 







o Acreages of crops were not given in the census of 1840, 1S50, 1860, and 1870. These were estimated by 

 taking the average yield for 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910, and dividing it into the total yield of the years when 

 acreages were not given. From these estimates the percentages in Table XIX and the acres per animal 

 in Table XX were computed for the farm by decades. 



Though the agriculture of the county made large developments 

 from 1840 to 1910, live stock either declined or was at a standstill. 

 Consequently, of more significance than the change in the number of 

 live stock is the decline during this time in the importance of live- 

 stock as related to the crops. This can best be shown by the num- 

 ber of animals of a specified kind there were for each 100 acres of land 

 planted to cotton, corn, oats, and wheat in each decade. In 1840 

 there were 19.2 head of cattle, 10.9 head of sheep, and 35.8 head of 

 swine for each 100 acres of these four crops. In 1910 there were 8.8 

 head of cattle, one-tenth of a sheep, and 5.3 head of swine for the 

 same acreage. Stated in another way, in 1910 cattle as related to 

 the crops were only 46 per cent, sheep 1 per cent, and hogs 14 per 

 cent as important as they were in 1840, making no allowance for 

 possible discrepancies in the census reports. The greatest falling off 

 in live stock was from 1870 to 1880, or in the decade when there was 

 the largest increase in cotton and the largest decrease in corn. The 

 decline in hogs has followed the decline in corn and the increase in 

 improved land, as the hogs were dependent upon corn and range for 

 support. 



Table XX. — Number of specified animals per 100 acres of land planted in cotton, corn, 

 oats, and wheat in Anderson County, S. C, 1840 to 1910. 





1810 



1850 



1860 



1870 



1880 



1890 



1900 



1910 



Cattle 



19.2 

 10.9 

 38.5 



15.6 

 10.0 

 34.5 



22.7 

 15.4 

 33.3 



17.8 

 16.7 

 25.6 



8.5 

 2.6 



7.6 



6.8 

 .9 

 6.3 



7.1 



.3 



5.9 



8.8 





.1 





5.3 







