. Yearbook of agriculture . Vui. 117.—The negro tenant and cropper farms or hoidinc:s are located mostly in theYazoo-Mississippi Delta, In the Black Prairie of Alabama, and in the upper CoastalPlain and Piedmont of Georgia and the Carolinas—districts having the richest soils inthe old South. Many of these farms are merely allotments to croppers on planta-tions, the owner of the plantation furnishing the cropper with his mule, his farmimplements, and sometimes, even, with food, until the crop is made in the fall andthe proceeds divided between them. Negro tenants are much fewer in Texas because
. Yearbook of agriculture . Vui. 117.—The negro tenant and cropper farms or hoidinc:s are located mostly in theYazoo-Mississippi Delta, In the Black Prairie of Alabama, and in the upper CoastalPlain and Piedmont of Georgia and the Carolinas—districts having the richest soils inthe old South. Many of these farms are merely allotments to croppers on planta-tions, the owner of the plantation furnishing the cropper with his mule, his farmimplements, and sometimes, even, with food, until the crop is made in the fall andthe proceeds divided between them. Negro tenants are much fewer in Texas becauseof historical reasons. The dots shown in California represent mostly Japanese andChinese tenant farmers. 502 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, FIG. 118.—statistics of population outi+ide incorporated Pl^^ces although includmmany suburbanites, mill workers, and. miners, especially in Pennsyivan a affod^^^ theclosest approximation to farm population prior to June, 1922^ In the l^^O :;A^^^^^^^enumerators indicated for the tirst time persons hying on f^lPS ^^f « . „ ,tion shows 31 614,000 people, or about three-fourths those living outside incoiporatcaplaces However,a m^ap^of farm population showing dV«tnbution by counties ^1^^^^^^the man above eould not be prepared, as the statistics were tabulated only by »iesFilue 97 showing number of farms, may be used to compare the relative density of farmSlulltion in d fffr?nt parts of theUnited States, since the number of People P/armSes from four to five in most States, except in the South, where there are five to six. A Graphic Svnnmary of American Agriculture. 503 \, ac n V*^. o BS Mr-;0)9>«oa><»<^-q;iAiAiy^ /X- P eg OO /•^ ^^ r^^ ^ 7. Ss _| g l^«.r^
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