42 BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
NUMBER OF WORK STOCK AND MONTHS OF MAN LABOR. 
The number of work stock on these farms was practically the same 
for the two periods, but in 1918 a smaller acreage of cotton was 
worked per mule and an increased acreage of other crops. (See Table 
21.) This applies to both owner and tenant farms, although the 
change was more pronounced on the white-owner farms, owing to 
the fact that they devoted a larger proportion of the crop area to 
crops other than cotton, and also because they utilized a large amount 
of the crop area for second crops and interplanted crops, yet the full 
significance of the difference in work-stock and man-labor utilization 
on these groups of farms the yields returned should also be consid- 
ered. (See Table 4.) 
The number of work stock and the amount of labor required for 
operating a farm are two indications of the size of business. The 
most labor and the most work stock was used on the white-owner 
farms and the least on the colored-tenant farms. The wide variations 
in the amount of labor and work stock used under the different ten- 
ures were largely due to the difference in average crop area. Com- 
paring 1913 and 1918, the white owners decreased the months of labor 
slightly, while the other groups showed an increase. The white ten- 
ants and colored owners used about one-half as much labor per farm 
as the white owners, and the colored tenants about one-third as much. 
TABLE 21.—Work stock and amount of labor, Sumter County, Ga., 534 farms in 
1913 and 550 in 1918. 
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White owners. White tenants. Colored owners. | Colored tenants. 
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} 1913 | 1918 | 1913 | 1918 1913 1918 | 1913 | 1918 
Number offarms............22-22.--- 263 | 290| 49 56{ - 31] - 48| =186] 166 
ACTOS CLODS Epos = 6 b.5s eo ccd ee 179; 181 85 102 107 || =2115} 59 | 72 
Acresin cottons. 452.) 2...-.-) See 102 69 54 45 67 | 53 | 39 | 38 
Acres second Crop...) - =...) eet. * 12 | 18 | 9 6 5 | 7 ili 4 
Acresintérplanted..................- 9 | i re EGS 9 | 25 20 10 
Number workstock per farm........- | 6.6| 6.5 2.9 3.2 3.9'| 420 ye 2.6 
Acres of cotton per mule..-...........| 15 11 19 14 17 | 13 19 | 15 
Acres of other crops per mule}....... 13 20 14 20 12 16 10 15 
Total months’ labor per farm.-......- 95 91 | 40 ti 53 55 | 31 36 
Total labor represented by: ) 
Wage labor (per cent).....-...--- 35 30 | 28 20 18 18 10 11 
Share cropper labor (per cent)... .| 49 54 | 33 41 33 29 | 10 13 
Total hired labor (per cent)..-.-...--- 84 84 | 61 61 51 47 20 24 
Acres of cotton per man.......-.-.--- 13 9 16 12 15 12 15 13 
Acres of other crops per man 2.......- 11 } 17 12 17 10 14 8 13 
Unpaid family labor (per cent)....... 3 | 3 | 97 12 | 26 31 42 43 
Farmer’s labor (per cent).-.-......-. 13 | 13 30 | 27 | 23 22 38 34 
Total unpaid labor (percent). ...---- 16 16 39 39 | 49 53 80 76 
Cost of hired labor per month: 
Waretabor 2596s eee sess: $18; $25; — $17 $25 | $17 $26 $18 $24 
Share cropper labor. .-.-.....----.-- 20 | 40 | 19 43 13 30 16 32 
Value of unpaid labor per month: 
Unpaid family labor... -.-....-...-. $16 $24 | $15 $20 | $14 $21 $13 $20 
Warmer’s 1aDOr ee See ee oe wwe oe 40 | 54 24 39 22 31 16 31 
1 Includes acreage used for second crops but not the acreage of interplanted crops with the main crop. 
2 Total months of labor divided by 12. 
