FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 37 
The average value of these items on the farms visited in this study 
in 1918 was equivalent to 9 per cent of the receipts on farms operated 
by white owners, 14 per cent on farms operated by white tenants, 
16 per cent on farms operated by colored owners, and 17 per cent on 
farms operated by colored tenants. 
Of the items of food supplied directly from the farms, pork is 
first in value, amounting to almost 40 per cent. Dairy products 
ranked second, and these two made up over 50 per cent of the value 
of the food supplied by the farm. 
The combined value of the items of food, fuel, and house rent 
furnished by the farm averaged $716 for the white-owner farms and 
$560 for the white tenants, $597 for the colored owners and $434 for 
the colored tenants. The average value of these items per adult 
equivalent was $162 for the white owners, $118 for the white tenants, 
$93 for the colored owners, and $75 for the colored tenants.° 
The value of these products on individual farms ranges from less 
than $250 to over $1,000. Table 16 shows the range in value of the 
family living on these farms in 1918. Only 3 per cent of the white 
owners and 2 per cent of the white tenants realized less than $250 
toward their family living from the farm, as against 11 per cent 
of the colored owners and 19 per cent of the colored tenants. Seven-— 
teen per cent of the white owners obtained over $1,000 toward their 
family living direct from the farm, as against only 6 per cent of the 
colored owners and 2 per cent of the colored tenants. 
TABLE 16.—Percentage distribution of farms according to family living from 
the farm, 550 farms, Sumter County, Ga., 1918. 
White owners. White tenants. Colored owners. Colored tenants. 
vs tromfar. | Percent | Spaauie | Percent | craduit | Petcent | nr agmie | Percent | Npmner 
6 " | oftotal | Couiva- | of total | equiva. | Oftotal | Goniva. | oftotal | O02 
gitar ber fonts per ae isnt per ae eats per siren eat nee 
: farm. = a arm a. farm. 
Over $1,000........... 17 GS ic eee ae oe et 6 13.0 2 6.2 
$751 to $1,000......... 22 5. 0 14 6.6 17 7.3 6 9.5 
S50 UT OLS 150 sae ese 34 4.2 43 5.1 35 6.7 24 6.6 
Septet ONpO00!- cee eee ee - 24 3.3 41 3.9 31 4.7 49 5.6 
$250 and less.......-. 3 2.0 2 2.0 11 5.0 19 3.8 
About one-fourth of the white owners and two-thirds of the colored 
tenants got less than $500 family living direct from the farm, while 
almost 40 per cent of the white owners and less than 10 per cent of 
the colored tenants got over $750. 
®°The results of studies on what the farm contributes toward the family living in sev- 
eral sections of the United States are published in Department Bulletin No. 410, “ Value 
to Farm Families of Food, Fuel, and Use of House,’’ and Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1082. 
““Home Supplies Furnished by the Farm.” 
