FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. pale ge 
The farmers who used the most man labor and the most mule 
labor per acre, and who applied the most fertilizer, as a rule got 
the highest yields and the largest net earnings. 
Average cost of producing cotton (per pound of lint) ; 
Cash, 7.5 cents. 
ETE HET ROL Other, 4.3 cents. 
Cash, 14.3 cents. 
Other, 8.9 cents. 
On farms of a given class or tenure, the cost of producing cotton 
per pound of lint decreased with increase of size of farm and yield 
per acre. 
1918____ 23.2 cents | 
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Fig. 1.—Map showing location of Sumter County, Ga., where an analysis of the business 
of 554 farms was made for 1918 and of 550 farms for 1918. 
On farms with high yields, the cost of cotton per pound was gen- 
erally lower than on farms with low yields, though the cost per acre 
was higher. 
AREA STUDIED. 
Sumter County is in the southwestern part of Georgia (see fig. 1). 
Americus, the county seat; situated near the center of the county, is 
about 150 miles south of Atlanta, 185 miles west of Savannah. and 
95 miles north of the Florida State line. 
The county was laid out in 1831 from part of Lee County. The 
first inhabitants came mostly from the older districts of the State. 
