BULLETIN 648, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table II. — Distribution of farm area (106- farms. Brooks County, Ga.) 
Total 
acres 
per 
farm. 
Acres of 
crop 
land per 
farm. 
Per cent of farm area in — 
Crop 
land. 
Woods 
pastured. 
Other 
pasture. 
Woods 
not 
pastured. 
Waste, 
swamp. 
etc. 
Total 
. woods 
and 
waste. 
331 145 
43.9 
11.4 
2.8 
30.5 J 11.4 53.3 
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DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL. 
The average capital per farm and the manner in which that capital 
is distributed among its different elements are shown in figure 4. 
Three-fourths of the average farm capital consists of real estate, 
leaving one-fourth as working capital; and nearly three-fourths of 
ITEMS 
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i_ Q 
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a. u 
ACRES PER FARM 
10 20 30 40 
50 
CORN 
PEANUTS 
COTTON 
OATS 
COWPEAS 
WATERMELONS 
RYE 
MISCE.L. 
5 5.0 
45.2 
38- 1 
26.6 
1 5.0 
7.7 
6.0 
7.5 
37 9 
31.2 
26-5 
1 8.3 
10.3 
5.3 
4.1 
5.2 
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Fig. 5. — Acres of crops per farm. 
the real estate value consists of land ($4,970). The average dwelling 
is worth $1,154, and the average values per farm of the tenants- 
houses and other buildings equal $300 and $364, respectively. Nearly 
half of the remaining investment consists of live stock, and more 
than 60 per cent of this is work stock. For every acre of land in 
crops, these farms had $7.34 invested in live stock, $4.66 in feeds and 
supplies, and $2.28 in implements and machinery. 
The average market price of the land of these farms was found 
to be $20.50 per acre, while the crop land alone was valued at $30.30 
per acre and would rent for $3.09. Thus the renting value amounts 
to approximately 10 per cent of the market value of the crop land. 
But it should be borne in mind that this rent is based on the land in 
its present state of fertility, which has been built up by the extensive 
growing and pasturing off of such crops as peanuts. If cropped for 
several successive seasons with cotton, this light, sandy soil would 
then rent for much less. A large part of the woodland other than 
waste is valued at but little less than the crop land, since it carries 
