APPENDIX E 
9 
Table 1. — Improved and unimproved land in plantations and large holding* other 
than plantations, operated by wage hands, and by croppers and tenants {75 selected 
counties), 1909 
Plantation area 
Plantations 
Land worked by 
wage hands 
Total 
acres 
Per 
cent 
im- 
proved 
La c n rop^r?Ind b5 ' ^ worked by 
tenants 
Other farms 
j Per 
Total I cent 
acres | im- 
proved 
J Per 
Total cent 
acres im- 
proved 
Land worked by 
croppers and 
tenants 
Total 
acres 
Per 
cent 
im- 
proved 
Texas- Arkansas 
Louisiana 
Mississippi Delta 
Arkansas-Tennessee 
Alabama-Mississippi 
Northern Alabama 
Georgia 
North Carolina-South 
C arolina 
Sugar cane 
Rice 
268,752 
195, 585 
684,313 
40.054 
663, 494 
185, 455 
516.801 
310. 501 
169, 947 
14,226 
19.5 
40.1 
25.2 
43.7 
31.7 
24.2 
24.9 
18.1 
40.1 
52.8 
185, 769 
88,220 
656,267 
55, 813 
531, 355 
140.843 
462,887 
185, 789 
102, 106 
11, 169 
Total : 3.049,128 
1 
27. 4 2, 420, 218 
90.8 
48,197 
31.2 
94.9 
14,246 
62.8 
87.7 
146, 248 
35.2 
93.0 
39, 553 
38.8 
91.3 
105, 503 
441 
92.3 
21,850 
35.7 
86.9 
88,655 
33.9 
90.7 
72,629 
31.7 
94.7 
39, 610 
54.0 
97.8 
10, 015 
45. 5 
89.8 
586,506 
38.2 
124, 465 
45, 021 
486,522 
180,384 
543,954 
104,538 
360, 471 
186,062 
87,278 
11,795 
85.7 
93.7 
89.2 
87.4 
82.6 
78.2 
87.2 
81.2 
Table 2. — Improved acres per agricultural worker in nine plantation States, 1880 
and 1920 
States 
Number of im- 
proved acres 
per worker 
1880 
1920 
Tpvas 
35.2 
16.6 
28.9 
13.3 
15.4 
16.8 
19.1 
14 1 
18. 1 
41. 1 
Arkansas . ...... 
23.0 
28.3 
Louisiana .. 
20.2 
Mississippi . .......... 
18.7 
Alabama.. ...... . . ........._..... .. .. . .. 
19.9 
21.7 
14 8 
North Carolina 
17.5 
L'nited States. . . . 
37.2 
47.3 
