FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 3 
ing of more legumes, and the practice of following a definite rota- 
tion became well-established upon many of the farms. More cow- 
peas, velvet beans, and peanuts were planted with corn, and more 
cowpeas followed the small grain crops. The production of hogs 
and peanuts for market was substantially increased. 
By carrying the business analysis of farms operated by white 
owners and tenants and by colored owners and tenants separately in 
the tables that follow, an opportunity for comparisons that serve to 
throw light on certain important economic problems of southern 
agriculture was presented. 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 
White owners operated about half of both the 534 farms studied in 
1913 and the 550 studied in 1918, these farms representing more than 
two-thirds of the total crop acreage reported, and producing almost 
three-fourths of the cotton. Colored tenants were the most numerous 
of the other classes, operating one-third of all farms, handling one- 
sixth of the crop acreage, and producing almost one-sixth of the 
cotton. The farms ranged in size from less than 50 acres to over 1,000, 
and yields of lint cotton from less than 100 pounds to over 500 per 
acre. 
Outstanding changes in farm organization disclosed as having 
taken place between 1913 and 1918 (white-owner farms) were as 
follows: 
Cotton gee Per se decreased one-third— 
1913 pees (57 per cent crop acreage.) 
1918 me (37 5 per cent.) 
Corn acreage Te till it about equaled cotton acreage— 
1913 qos (28 per cent of crop acreage.) 
1918 oes (37 per cent.) 
Wheat acreage SiecaKeiS 
1913, almost none. 
1918, wheat grown on about two-thirds of farms. 
Peanut acreage increased— 
1913 om (2 per cent of crop acreage.) 
1918 memes (10 per cent.) 
Applications of fertilizer decreased 37 per cent— 
1913, 390 pounds per acre. 
1918, 244 pounds per acre. 
Introduction of the velvet bean (usually interplanted with corn). 
Increase in live-stock production (particularly hogs). 
Increase in acreage of legumes (velvet beans, cowpeas, and pea- 
nuts). 
Wider utilization of land for second and interplanted crops. 
Tendency of share-cropper labor to supplant wage labor. 
