4 BULLETIN 511, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
of farming practiced in the various areas in so far as can be indi- 
cated by the crops grown, crop acreage, and crop yields. 
Table II. — Normal average acreage per farm and acre yields of various crops on the farms 
surveyed in each of the nineteen regions studied. 
[The key letters under " Region surveyed '' refer to the location of farms studied, as follows: A= Pemiscot 
Countv, Mo.; B= Mississippi Delta; C= Robeson County, N. C; D= Mecklenburg County, N.C; E= 
Barnwell County, S. C; F=Pike County, Ga.; G=Tift County, Ga.; H=Giles County, Term.; ^Bul- 
loch County, Ga.; J=St. Francis County, Ark.; K= Ellis County, Tex.; L= Chambers County, Ala.; 
M= Johnston County, Okla.: N= Jefferson County, Fla.; 0= Lincoln Parish, La.; P= Lavaca County, 
Tex.; Q= Houston County, Tex.; R= Monroe County, Miss.; S= Bexar County, Tex.] 
Region 
Cotton. 
Corn. 
Oats. 
Sugar cane. 
Sweet potato. 
surveyed 
(fig. 1). 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
A 
Acres. 
71 
540.5 
65.5 
35 
62.5 
49.5 
34.5 
26.5 
40.5 
145.5 
132 
138 
72.5 
29 
24 
51.5 
58.5 
75.5 
75.5 
Pounds. 
1,200 
1,034 
1,006 
958 
925 
904 
881 
860 
816 
767 
684 
676 
676 
664.5 
644 
642 
610 
586 
472 
Acres. 
57 
197 
39.5 
32 
47.5 
24 
21.5 
69.5 
29 
59 
25.5 
54.5 
44 
50 
21 
30 
35 
46.5 
34 
Bushels. 
37 
30.5 
24 
22.5 
16.5 
20.5 
21 
35.5 
21 
28 
27 
19.5 
25 
12.5 
17 
26.5 
17 
24.5 
24.5 
Acres. 
Bushels. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Bushels. 
B 
39 
7 
17 
12 
12 
10 
9.5 
6 
3 
10.5 
21.5 
17.5 
4 
2 
42 
30 
26 
22 
35.5 
27 
24.5 
28 
27 
40 
25.5 
29 
18 
16.5 
C 
D 
E 
F 
G. 
1.5 
109 
H 
I 
J 
0.5 
1.5 
a 100 
*>3.5 
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87 
K 
L.... 
M 
6.5 
1 
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2.5 
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6 208 
6 2.5 
1 
1 
1 
183.5 
N 
145.5 

114.5 
P 
Q 
1.5 
9.5 
4 
38.5 
21.5 
25 
.5 
1.5 
105.5 
R 
2 
15 
a 100 
6 2.5 
79.5 
S 
Region surveyed 
(fig. 1). 
Alfalfa. 
Peanut. 
Cowpea. 
Irish potato. 
Pasture 
and all 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
Per 
farm. 
Yield. 
other 
crops 
per farm. 
\ 
Acres. 
18 
3 
Tons. 
4 
3 
Acres. 
Bushels. 
Acres. | Tons. 
Acres. 
Bushels. 
Acres. 
1.5 
B 
13. 5 ) 
31.5 
C... 
11 
D 
rf8 
1 
23 
E 
8.5 
F . 
5 6 
5.5 
G... 
4.5 
16 
10.5 
H 
21.5 
1.5 
8.5 
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3.5 

5.5 
J 
10.5 
1.5 
0.55 
73 
6.5 
K. 
4.5 
L 
17 
M 
4 
2 
17.5 
N 
6.5 
6.5 
27.5 
27.5 
1 
9 
O. 
6 
p 
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1 
1 
4 
Q... 
1 
2 
25 
32.5 
2.5 1 
14 1 
8.5 
R 
1.5 
3.5 
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a Gallons. t> Tons. c Bushels. d Crimson clover. 
SUBSOILING. 
e Prairie grass. 
Subsoiling is the process of breaking up the subsoil without mix- 
ing it with the topsoil. It is most often accomplished by plowing 
a furrow with an ordinary turning plow and then running a smaller 
shovel plow in the bottom of this furrow. Throughout the cotton 
belt, where the land as prepared for cotton is often plowed into beds 
