46 BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
prices show a decided decline for 1920. The year 1914 brought dis- 
astrous prices for cotton, although, considering the increase in cost 
of production, it is probable that 1920 was about as bad. Cotton 
shows the widest range in price, from 7.8 cents per pound in 1914 to 
37.4 cents in 1919. The price of cattle was very low over the entire 
period, averaging only $4.13 hundredweight for the period 1911 to 
1915, and $6.55 per hundredweight for the period 1915 to 1920. 
AVERAGE FARM PRICE 
GEORGIA, 1911-1920 
AVERAGE FOR FiVE YEAR PERIOD 1911-1I915=!100 
FIVE YEAR AVERAGE if 
[StF =—4915 
COTTON LINT, LB.*.108 
COTTON SEED. TON 24.92 
CORN, BU. 
OATS, BU. 
PEANUTS, LB 
HOGS, CWT. 
Fic, 7.—The farm prices of cotton and cotton seed varied somewhat during the period 
1911 to 1915, while those of the other products were rather uniform. The prices of 
most products were highest in 1919, with decided declines in 1920. Cotton and cotton 
seed reached relatively higher prices than the other products. 
DIVERSITY. 
Cotton is the major enterprise in Sumter County, but there was 
more or less diversity of crops even in 1913, though, as already 
pointed out, there was greater tendency to crop diversification in 1918 
than in 1913. | 
Perhaps the first consideration in a discussion of diversity in the 
organization of these cotton farms should be the growing of products 
for family use, for supplying feed for the work stock, and rations 
for the large amount of labor necessary in the operation of such 
farms. More or less of such products were grown on all the farms 
under study, but on many of them not enough were grown to meet all 
the requirements in the operation of the farm. White farmers pro- 
duced more for family use, feed, and rations, than colored farmers, 
and all farms produced more in 1918 than in 1913. 
