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an inexpensive and easy means of increasing crop yields, as well as 
crop acreages; and undoubtedly this practice will be, and should be, 
followed in greater measure on many farms in this area. Corn lends 
itself to the practice of interplanting better than any other crop 
common to this area. (See Table 3.) 
TABLE 3.—Percentage of corn acreage interplanted with other crops, Sumter 
County, Georgia, 1918, 550 farms. 
Per cent of corn acreage interplanted with— 
Per 
Acres Velvet cent of 
in corn Wola! vor Cow- | beans, qeeae - 
per % - eans | beans | peas | cow- 
farm. Velvet || Cow Pea and and and | peas, | Total. atOE 
beans. | peas. | nuts. inter- 
cow- | pea- pea- and inuited 
peas. | nuts. | nuts. | pea- P 
nuts. 
White owners: 
Wage corn!..... 35 40 17 2 U 9 1 1 77 23 
Cropper corn.... 34 28 22 3 5 4 1 1 64 36 
Total corn....-. 69 35 20 2 6 6 1 1 71 29 
White tenants: | 
Wage corn !..... 26 25 26 6 2 3 1 (Ae Oa 63 37 
Cropper corn.... 15 31 10 dea erecta SerGetrsedl nceaseas| ln eeceineses 42 58 
Total corn..... 41 27 20 4 1 2 La cee 55 45 
Colored owners: 
Wage corn!..... 33 12 35 5 3 2 Lae 61 39 
Cropper corn.... 12 2 CSO | APs es alee ded eve aint techn KBR a oe 39 61 
Total corn...--. 45 10 35 4 2 1 Sill epee oe 55 45 
[ae Se ee et 
Colored tenants: 
Wage corn!..... 23 13 20 3 2 lt el eae 40 60 
Cropper corn.... 3 16 16 Ds fet derened bets ener DAG eet | ac 33 67 
Total corn..... 26 14 20 2 1 1 De gest a 39 61 
1 Wage corn is that grown by wage hands and by the farmer and his family. 
In 1918, 35 per cent of the corn acreage of the white owners was 
interplanted with velvet beans, 20 per cent with cowpeas, and 16 per 
cent with other crops, making in all 71 per cent of the corn area 
interplanted with other crops. The white tenants and colored owners 
each interplanted 55 per cent of the corn acreage with other crops, 
while the colored tenants utilized only 39 per cent of the corn area for 
these crops. Velvet beans were used more extensively on the owner 
farms than on the tenant farms. 
CROP YIELDS. 
Cotton, the small grains, cowpea hay, and cane sirup gave lower 
yields in 1918 than in 4913, corn about the same yields each year, and 
peanuts and sweet potatoes higher yields in 1918 than in 1913. Asa 
rule, the wage land returned higher yields than the cropper land. 
(See Table 4.) 
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