Farm Management And Farm Organization In Sumter County Ga

Author : Harvey W. Hawthorne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260670410
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Farm Management and Farm Organization in Sumter County, Georgia written by Harvey W. Hawthorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Farm Management and Farm Organization in Sumter County, Georgia: An Analysis of the Business of 534 Farms in 1913, and 550 Farms in 1918, Professional Paper White owners operated about half of both the 534 farms studied in 1913 and the 550 studied in 1918, these farms representing more than two thirds of the total crop acreage reported, and producing almost three-fourths of the cotton. Colored tenants were the most numerous of the other classes, operating one-third of all. Farms, handling one sixth of the crop acreage, and producing almost one sixth of the cotton. The farms ranged in size from less than 50 acres to over 1 and yields of lint cotton from less than 100 pounds to over 500 per acre. Outstanding changes in farm organization disclosed-as having taken place between 1913 and 1918 (white-owner farms) were as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.