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BULLETIN 651, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Cattle have barely held their own in Anderson County, there being 
18,499 in 1840 and 18,530 in 1910. As compared with population, 
they have decreased in relative numbers and importance. Sheep 
have declined from 10,387 in 1840 to 245 in 1910, while in the same 
period hogs declined from 36,381 to 11,163. These figures for live 
stock in 1840 are hardly comparable with the 1910 census, however, 
as the last census was taken in April, while in other years the census 
was taken in June, thus including a larger number of young stock. 
Table XIX. — Percentage of area devoted to principal crops, by decades, Anderson County, 
S. C. 
Crop. 
1840a 
1850a 
1860a 
1870a 
1880 
1890 
1900 
1910 
112 farms, 
Belton 
area, 
Anderson 
County, 
1914. 
Cotton 
12.8 
69.9 
7.0 
10.3 
10.6 
63.9 
16.3 
9.2 
12.7 
72.2 
3.6 
11.5 
21.7 
61.8 
5.1 
11.4 
43.5 
35.5 
9.1 
11.9 
52.3 
30.1 
10.0 
7.6 
59.5 
28.1 
4.2 
8.2 
63.3 
25.9 
8.4 
2.4 
63.1 
23.6 
Oats 
12.1 
Wheat 
1.8 
a Acreages of crops were not given in the census of 1840, 1850. 1860, and 1870. These were estimated by 
taking the average yield for 1880, 1890, 1900, and 1910, and dnnding it into the total yield of the years when 
acreages were not given. From these estimates the percentages in Table XIX and the acres per animal 
in Table XX were computed for the farm by decades. 
Though the agriculture of the county made large developments 
from 1840 to 1910, live stock either declined or was at a standstill. 
Consequently, of more significance than the change in the number of 
five stock is the decline during this time in the importance of live- 
stock as related to the crops. This can best be shown by the num- 
ber of animals of a specified kind there were for each 100 acres of land 
planted to cotton, corn, oats, and wheat in each decade. In 1840 
there were 19.2 head of cattle, 10.9 head of sheep, and 35.8 head of 
swine for each 100 acres of these four crops. In 1910 there were 8.8 
head of cattle, one-tenth of a sheep, and 5.3 head of swine for the 
same acreage. Stated in another way, in 1910 cattle as related to 
the crops were only 46 per cent, sheep 1 per cent, and hogs 14 per 
cent as important as they were in 1840, making no allowance for 
possible discrepancies in the census reports. The greatest falling off 
in live stock was from 1870 to 1880, or in the decade when there was 
the largest increase in cotton and the largest decrease in corn. The 
decline in hogs has followed the decline in corn and the increase in 
improved land, as the hogs were dependent upon corn and range for 
support. 
Table XX. — Number of specified animals per 100 acres of land planted in cotton, corn, 
oats, and wheat in Anderson County, S. C, 1840 to 1910. 
1840 
1850 
1860 
1870 
1880 
1890 
1900 
1910 
Cattle 
19.2 
10.9 
38.5 
15.6 
10. 6 
34.5 
22.7 
15. 4 
33.3 
17.8 
16.7 
25.6 
8.5 
2.6 
7.6 
6.8 
.9 
6.3 
7.1 
.3 
5.9 
8.8 
.1 
5.3 
