ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS ' ASSOCIATION 



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Table 4. — Value of farm property per farm and of land and of buildings per 

 acre in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, 1925 



Kind of property 



Virginia 



North 

 Carolina 



South 

 Carolina 



Land— 



Dollars 



3, 100. 69 



1, 477. 05 



374. 91 



131. 76 



83.46 



206. 59 



Dollars 



2, 421. 40 



845. 21 



273. 57 



98.91 

 70.58 

 163. 80 



Dollars 

 2, 008. 98 



Buildings _ 



639. 75 



Livestock 



245. 17 



Implements and machinery, by tenure: 



Tenants 



69.65 



Croppers 



48.87 



All farmers 



133. 73 







All farm property 



5, 159. 24 



3, 703. 98 



3,027.63 







Land per acre 



34.90 

 16.63 



36.92 

 12.88 



32.62 



Buildings per acre 



10.39 







Census of Agriculture, 1925 (10). 





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PER CENT 

 \?:<-\-\ Under 12.0 

 1 12.0 to 25.0 

 125.0 to 37.S 

 | 37.5 to 50.0 

 $50.0 to 62.5 

 g 62.5 to 75.0 

 m 15.0 and over 



Figure 12. 



-Percentage of Colored Farmers, 1924, in Virginia. North 

 Carolina, and South Carolina 



The ratio of colored farmers to all farmers tends to be largest in the counties where 

 the tenancy is high and where the farmers depend largely upon one or two cash crops. 



FARM INCOME 



In the important tobacco-growing counties of the tri-State area the 

 farm income is usually low as compared with the farm incomes in 

 many other parts of the United States. Although 1922 was a favor- 

 able year for the Virginia tobacco growers, on 138 dark-tobacco farms 

 in Appomattox County during that year the average operator earn- 



