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CIRCULAR 10 0, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



ing was only $735. On 150 farms in Pittsylvania County that grow 

 bright tobacco it was $1,231 (U, pp. 18-19). A study of 300 farmers 

 in South Carolina and 420 in North Carolina, in 1926, showed that 

 48 per cent of those farmers in South Carolina and 33 per cent in 

 North Carolina received farm receipts averaging less than $270 a 

 year. (Table 5.) In South Carolina 83 per cent of the 300 received 

 an average of $512; 77 per cent of the 420 North Carolina farmers 

 received farm receipts averaging $657. 9 



Table 5. 



-Receipts, credit used, and ratio of credit to receipts of North Carolina 

 and South Carolina farmers' 1 





Farmers 



Average 

 receipts 



Average 

 credit 



Ratio of credit 

 to receipts 



State and receipts 



in 

 <D 



a 

 O 



to 



a 



03 



a 



i 



<D 



D 



o 

 < 



o 



O 



a 

 O 



a 



OS 



a 

 o 



03 



oo 



CD 



a 

 o 



"S 



e9 



a 



ep 



Eh 



03 



Is 

 9 



g 



a 



o 



CO 



"3 



03 



a 



etJ 

 u 



Sg 



< 



North Carolina: 



$0-$500__ 



No. 

 135 

 171 



91 



Per 



cent 



34 



43 



23 



No. 

 4 

 14 

 5 



Per 



cent 



17 



No. 

 139 



Per 



cent 



33 



44 



23 



Dot. 



265 



950 



1,930 



Dot. 



305 



926 



4,000 



Dot. 

 266 

 950 



2,980 



Dot. 

 80 

 230 

 840 



Dot. 



135 

 340 

 706 



Dot. 



81 



239 



832 



0.30 

 .24 

 .44 



0.44 

 .37 



.18 



n.so 



$501-$1,500 



61 185 



22 96 



.25 



$1,501 and over 



.28 



Total 



397 



100 



23 



100 420 



100 



942 



1,490 



1,190 



318 



187 



513 



1,705 



597 



385 



284 

 586 

 622 



389 



322 



210 



524 



1,620 



561 



.34 



.71 

 .61 

 .52 



.57 



.26 



1.02 

 .71 

 .34 



.73 



.27 









South Carolina: 



$0-$500..__ 



108 

 93 

 47 



248 



43 

 38 

 19 



100 



35 

 13 

 4 



52 



i 

 67j 143 

 25 10fi 



48 

 35 

 17 



100 



264 



844 



3,250 



1,050 



278 



830 



1,820 



536 



268 



842 



3,140 



.78 



$501-$1,500 



.62 



$1,501 and over 



8 



51 



.52 



Total 



100 



300 



957 



.59 







1 Summary of reports secured in credit study made by the Agricultural Finance Division of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, 1927. 



Not only is the farm income relatively low but it is less dependable 

 because of the high degree of dependence upon one or two cash crops. 

 Tobacco only in some parts, and cotton and tobacco in other parts 

 of the tri-State area are the chief cash crops, although they occupy 

 only about one-fourth of the total crop acreage. According to the 

 1928 Report of the Tax Commission of North Carolina, 96.6 per cent 

 of all crop receipts and 67.4 per cent of all gross receipts in Person 

 County, and 74.6 per cent of all crop receipts and 59.2 per cent of all 

 farm recipts in the Lenoir area were from tobacco alone. In Ap- 

 pomattox and Pittsylvania Counties, Va., growing dark tobacco and 

 bright tobacco, respectively, the percentages of gross income from 

 cash crops were 61.9 per cent and 84 per cent of the total. In 

 Appomattox County, tobacco gave 49 per cent of the gross farm in- 

 come and in Pittsylvania 76 per cent (1^ p. 15). 



This lack of diversification is generally conceded to be largely 

 responsible for the condition of the tobacco and cotton growers. It 

 results in the growing of too few food crops, soil-improvement crops, 

 and animals except for work purposes. Dependence upon a few non- 

 food cash crops, which are usually sold soon after harvesting, does 

 not tend to create thrift and farm prosperity. The lack of diversi- 

 fication of crops iii this area is due, among other causes, to the preva- 



8 Data from Division of Agricultural Finance, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



