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rent. The actual work is performed largely by negro tenants or 
laborers. Most of the farms have good farmhouses, and the county 
is very attractive and apparently prosperous. 
Table XVI. — Tillage practices with cotton in Pike County, Ga., showing depths of 
plowing, implements used in order of use, number of times each is used, and normal 
acre yields. 
[In columns 5 to 9 and 11 to 15 the figures show the order in which the implement was used on the several 
farms; as, l=first working or cultivation 2= second working or cultivation, etc.] 
Plowing. 
Tillage after plowing and 
before planting. 
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after planting. 
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3 
2 
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3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
1 
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5 
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3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
2 
3 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
1 
2 to 5 
2 to 5 
2 to 5 
2 to 6 
3 to 7 
2 to 5 
2 to 6 
2 to 6 
1 to 5 
lto4 
3,4,5 
5 
2,3,4 
2,3,4 
4 to 7 
3 to 6 
2 to 6 
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3 to 6 
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2 to 6 
2 to 6 
2 to 5 
3 to 6 
5 
5 
5 
6 
5 
6 
6 
5 
4 
5 
5 
4 
4 
7 
6 
6 
4 
6 
6 
4 
6 
6 
5 
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1 
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1,400 
1,000 
1,000 
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1 
2 
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9 
1,000 
750 
10 
11 
1,2 
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1 
750 
12 
1 
2 
1 
1,000 
750 
13 
14 
2 
4 
5 
4 
1 
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1,200 
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2 
62 
2 
2 
2 
62 
2 
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1 
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18 
1 
4 
3 
4 
3 
3 
3 
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19 
1,200 
750 
20 
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1 
1 
1 
1 
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21 
1 
1 
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22 
800 
23 
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24 
4 
500 
25 
4 
700 
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60 
60 
60 
100 
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a One-horse, 5-shovel cultivator. 
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The principal crops grown are cotton, corn, and oats. No definite 
rotations are practiced. Cotton is grown usually on the best land. 
Cowpeas are sown on all stubble land and the vines cut for hay. 
Cowpeas also are planted between the corn rows and the vines 
plowed under after the peas are gathered. Some wheat is grown on 
a few farms. Sugar cane, peanuts, and sweet potatoes are grown 
for home use. This area is just on the border of the Georgia peach 
belt, and nearly every farmer grows a few peaches for home use. Very 
little fruit or truck is produced for market. Only enough cattle and 
hogs are kept for home use, and the farm income is almost entirely 
from cotton. 
