62 BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In 1913 the average cost was 11.8 cents per pound, and about. 52 
per cent of the farms produced at this cost or less. This average 
cost included about 60 per cent of the acreage and about 64 per cent 
of the production. In 1918 the average cost was 23.2 cents per 
pound, and this included 48 per cent of the farms, 54 per cent of the 
acreage, and 57 per cent of the production. 
In 1913 the cost of production was above the average on 48 per 
cent of the farms, and included about 40 per cent of the acreage 
and about 36 per cent of the production, while in 1918 the cost of 
production was above the average on 52 per cent of the farms, and 
included 46 per cent of the acreage and 438 per cent of the production. 
The average price received in 1913 was 12.2 cents and the aver- 
age cost of production 11.8 cents. In 1918 the average price received ~ 
was 29.2 cents and the average cost 23.2 cents. 
Plate IV shows the number of farms producmg at various costs 
in 1913 and 1918. 
COST OF PRODUCTION BY CLASSES OF FARMERS. 
Table 35 shows a range in average cost in 1913 from 10.3 cents 
per pound of lint for white tenants to 12.2 cents per pound for white 
owners. In 1918 the range was from 20 cents per pound for the 
white tenants to 24.6 cents for white owners. 
The cost to the white-owner operators is the one of most import- 
ance in cotton production in this area. The white owners repre- 
sented one-half the farms under study for each year, but in 1913 
they had 72 per cent of the cotton acreage and 75 per cent of the 
cotton production, and in 1918, 69 per cent of the cotton acreage and 
69 per cent of the cotton production. 
While their cost per unit of production was higher in both 1913 
and 1918 than for either white tenants, colored owners, or colored 
tenants, the size of their business and greater efficiency of operation 
won for them the largest farm incomes and labor incomes. (See 
Table 12, page 33.) 
The average cost in 1918 for each class of operators shown in 
the table was slightly less than twice that of 1913 except for the white 
owners, whose average cost in 1918 was slightly more than twice that 
of 1918. 
On most of the tenant farms, owing to the small size of business 
conducted and small output per worker, the cost must of necessity 
be comparatively low per unit of production if they are to have left 
a living income after paying rent and other expenses. The owner 
farms, on the other hand, are equipped for a much larger output 
per man; they have better buildings, machinery, mules and other 
working equipment, which increase their cost per unit of production, 
