60 BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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 fiparee a 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 usualrange. 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 534 farms, Sumter 
County, Ga., 1918. 
Farms. | Acreage. Production. 
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z | 
Net cost pet Pound oflint Total | Cumula- | Total | Cumula- Total Cumula- 
: number | tive — tive pounds tive 
per | per come per lint per per 
group. | cent. Be} cent. group. cent. 
| 
TE, Ci eS ep eee a  C | 1 0.19 47 0. 12 | 11, 880 0. 12 
SUS 2S 6-5 oe eee 3 75 | 113 .41 36, 800 - 48 
DN TE gl ae pe erga Een eres | 7 2.06 } = A 1.33 96, 000 1.43 
Tif 7ST as SP SRA SBP 20 | 5.80 | 1,232 4.47| 336,675 4.76 
SOS. ee ee eee ae 23 | 10.11} 1,331 7. 87 374, 100 8. 46 
PO eee eee a ono ne sae 48 | 19.10} 3,353 16. 42 962, 680 17.97 
BVM ere esas ak! eee oe? 72 | 32.58 | 5,333.5 30.08 | 1,441,555 32. 21 
“LITT See Rea IES 2 RARE. 55 | 42.88| 8,432 51.54 | 2,422,800 56.15 
(Se ee ee ae ee 59 | 53.93 | 4.068 | 61.92 | 1,031,550 66. 34 
TL uA AR Se CHE eh I: DRE él | 65.35} 4,868.5 74.34 | 1,240,415 78. 60 
«Chas Se lpg op faeepeetetat pte 45 73.78 S63 DR $2. 92 771, 830 86. 23 
SOME eee et 2S. 53s. horton 32 | 79.77 | 1,795 7.50 417, 675 90. 36 
RAY Grr ek ee ec 30 | 85.39} 1,425.25 91.14 328, 310 93. 60 
“1b 3S. ae Es REECE 16 88.38] 1,211 94. 23 263, 500 96. 20 
a a aeeee 6 | 89. 50 269 94. 92 62, 000 96. 81 
“ih LU, So ee ee NE Tere eee 11 | 91. 56 344 95. 80 60, 225 97.41 
~ (VET Se eee ay ue gers 11 93. 62 273.75 | 96. 50 55, 500 97. 96 
MVD Weer eee oe ae eee 11 95. 68 525 97. 84 91, 100 98. 86 
Ieee ede ea ok 3 | 96. 24 97... | 98. 09 17,000 99. 03 
Sete meres See aoe | 10 | 98. 11 310 98. 88 51, 000 99, 53 
T1S/ oe Se Se OSE ee eae 1 98. 30 98. 90 1, 000 99. 54 
PF i Es aap ek aaa 2 98. 67 273 99. 60 29, 450 99. 83 
ee 1| 98. 86 24 99. 66 3, 000 99. 86 
Gj | aa IE a 5 a 1 99. 05 25 99, 72 2,275 99. 88 
i neem StF 1 99. 24 6 99. 73 2,250 99. 90 
“Ue Peg eae Sis TEE ESS es Fee 1| 99. 43 6.5 99.75 1,000 99. 91 
$0.32. . Foeescge_saer ppt 1) 99. 62 20 99. 80 3, 000 99. 94 
(iS Saami a indi Beano be ealinen 1 99. 81 | 65 99. 96 4, 875 99. 99 
SOSOLS five SR eal in lo 1| 100. 00 | 15) || 100. 00 1, 500 100. 00 
Dota. vt peugses ba 534 | 39, 192.5 10, 120, 945 
A-verage cost ‘per pound lint .: --5-.~--.-- =. .0sack5 os ood n cece cee enon sceen ese eee eee eee Eee eee eee gu. 118 
Averape selling price per pound) lint... 2.2... so. colon cane oe wen cuu gaan cee sk seen see seee Eee . 122 
