A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . NUMBER OF FARMSOPERATED BY WHITE TENANTS STATE NUMBER STATE NUMBER T«. 177,198 Mo. 75,727 101,196 75,644 G«.... 93,016 75,596 69,064 AU. 70,395 88,684 Kaiu. 66,701 83,056 65,587 Fig. 115.—The largest number of farms operated by white tenants is in the upperPiedmont of the Carollnas, Georgia, and Alabama, and in the Black Waxy Prairie ofTexas. In these districts negroes are less numerous than to the South and East, andthe cotton is grown mostly by white farmers. The proportio
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . NUMBER OF FARMSOPERATED BY WHITE TENANTS STATE NUMBER STATE NUMBER T«. 177,198 Mo. 75,727 101,196 75,644 G«.... 93,016 75,596 69,064 AU. 70,395 88,684 Kaiu. 66,701 83,056 65,587 Fig. 115.—The largest number of farms operated by white tenants is in the upperPiedmont of the Carollnas, Georgia, and Alabama, and in the Black Waxy Prairie ofTexas. In these districts negroes are less numerous than to the South and East, andthe cotton is grown mostly by white farmers. The proportion of tenancy is about thesame as in central Illinois. A large number of white tenants are .showii in Kentuckyand western Ohio, especially in the tobacco districts, and throughout the Corn small number of tenanis. as compared with ownr-rs (Fig. 114), is notable in theHay and Pasture Region and in the West. A Graphic Summary of American Agricultv/re. 501. Fig. IIO.—The largest number of farms oporated by negro owners is found in easternVirginia, southeastern South Carolina, and northeastern Texas, all areas of cheap land,in Virginia there are almost twice as many farms operated by negro owners as by negrotenants, and in Florida the numbers aie about equal, but in the Cotton Belt tenantsgreatly exceed owners in number (see Fig. 117). Of the 2,):<,222 in the Unitedbtatps operated by negro and non-white owners, only 9,103 are in the North and , 71 per cent of tlie negro and non-white farmers in the North and West owntheir farms, as compared with 24 per cent In the South. The dots in the western Statesrepresent mostly farms owned and operated by Indians, Chinese, and Japanese. FARMS OPERATED BY COLORED TENANTS AND CROPPERSNUMBER JAN. 1, 1920
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