A FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 7 
tioned the results of this survey' represent a close approximation 
to average conditions. It is true, however, that the cattle market 
was somewhat low, but this affected appreciably the income from 
only three of the farms. Also the price of hogs was slightly 
depressed, but not sufficiently so to warrant substitutions. 
Numerous losses from hog cholera occurred throughout the county, 
and on a few of the farms studied such losses were serious, but taken 
together these losses represented approximately the average losses 
from that source during the preceding years. 
TYPE OF FARMING. 
Table II shows how the farm area is divided. The 106 farms 
surveyed average in size 331 acres, of which less than half, or 145 
acres, are devoted to planted crops. Scarcely any idle crop land 
ITEMS 
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INVESTMENT PER FARM 
* 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 *6000 
REAL ESTATE 
LIV E STOCK 
*6788 
1064 
75.5 
11.8 
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FEED & SUPPLIES 
675 
7.5 
IMPLEMENTS &M'CH'?tf 
331 
3.7 
CASH 
134 
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Fig. 4. — Distribution of farm investment. 
is found, and less than 2 acres per farm of pasture in rotation. 
Permanent pasture, other than woods pastured, includes less than 
8 acres per farm, slightly more than half of which is tillable. The 
remaining farm area (see fig. 3) , or 53.3 per cent of the total acreage, 
consists of woods and waste land. About one-fifth of the woods 
and waste land, or 11.4 per cent of the total farm area, either can 
not be brought under cultivation at all, or not without a large outlay, 
since it consists of roads, ponds, and swampy areas near the streams. 
A like area of the woodland is fenced and utilized as pasture, leav- 
ing exactly one-fifth of the farm area in woodland that could be 
cleared but is actually used only as a source of wood, lumber, and 
turpentine, and as a public range. The woodland, if fenced, fur- 
nishes a low-grade pasture which serves mainly to tide the live stock 
over the late winter, spring, and early summer period when the 
crop area as now organized does not provide sufficient pasturage. 
The unfenced woodland serves a like purpose, it being a common 
practice to allow cattle and hogs to graze the public roads and 
range. The woodland is covered for the most part with longleaf 
pine, some of which is being turpentined preparatory to lumbering 
and clearing, while more is held as a source of firewood and future 
lumber supply. Several turpentine stills and sawmills are in opera- 
tion in the county. 
27202°— 18— Bull. 648 2 
