24 BULLETIN 1034, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the white-owner farms, where cotton and seed represented 83.3 per 
cent of the total receipts in 1913 and but 73.4 per cent in 1918. The 
colored farmers, both owners and tenants, showed the least change in 
organization for the two periods, and both white and colored tenants 
showed less change than white or colored owners, respectively. Con- 
sidering all farms, the per cent of receipts from cotton dropped from 
83 per cent in 1913 to 75 per cent in 1918. This relative decrease in 
receipts from the cotton enterprise has been compensated for largely 
by the extension of the corn, peanut, and hog enterprises. 
The distribution of receipts for the two periods does not indicate 
clearly the actual changes that have taken place in the organization of 
the farms unless there is also taken into consideration the relative sizes 
of the enterprises for each period, as shown in Table 2, since the rela- 
tive prices of these products vary, and this variation affects the per- 
centage returns from the various enterprises. On the white-owner 
farms the area devoted to cotton decreased 33 per cent, but the price 
of cotton increased from about 12 cents per pound in 1913 to about 29 
cents in 1918, and cotton seed from $26.26 per ton to $69.07. The price 
of cotton and seed increased to a greater extent than the prices of 
other products sold, and thus returns from cotton were relatively high, 
even though the amount for sale was considerably less than in 1918. 
More feed crops and soil fertility crops were raised. 
While the increased production of corn in 1918 was accompanied 
by an increased production of hogs, the farmers, nevertheless, were 
able to sell a larger quantity of corn than before. However, corn is 
not promising as a commercial crop in this area, owing to the low 
yields obtained. Receipts from corn increased from 8 per cent in 
1913 to 5 per cent in 1918 on white-owner farms and from 2.1 per 
cent to 4.1 per cent on white-renter farms. Colored operators de- 
voted about the same proportion of area to corn as white operators, 
and increased their acreage in 1918 in nearly the same proportion, but 
as their yields were very low both years they had little corn to sell. 
In 1913 practically no peanuts were grown for market in the area, 
but in 1918 they yielded 4 per cent of the receipts on white-owner 
farms and 3.4 per cent on white-renter farms. Colored: operators, 
however, as previously pointed out, gave little attention to this enter- 
prise, realizing less than 1 per cent of their receipts from this source 
in 1918. | 
The other crop sales were of very minor importance, wheat, oats, 
hay, sirup, sweet potatoes, watermelons, tobacco, and a few others, 
including fruit, nuts, and vegetables, aggregating less than 3 per cent 
of the total receipts for all classes of operators in 1913 and less than 
4 per cent in 1918. 
The receipts from live stock and live-stock products are of small 
but growing importance. This is especially true of hogs, which are 
