. Yearbook of agriculture . NUMBER OF FARMS OfERATED BY COLORED OWTiERS STATE NUMBER STATE NUMBER AU .. .. 16,042 Ark . 15,373 22,759 U ... 10,986 22,277 Tt»n . 9,840 Fio. IIG.—The numbor nf farms operated by negro owners 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 tlie numbers are about equal, but in the Cotton Belt tenantsgreatly exceed owners in number
. Yearbook of agriculture . NUMBER OF FARMS OfERATED BY COLORED OWTiERS STATE NUMBER STATE NUMBER AU .. .. 16,042 Ark . 15,373 22,759 U ... 10,986 22,277 Tt»n . 9,840 Fio. IIG.—The numbor nf farms operated by negro owners 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 tlie numbers are about equal, but in the Cotton Belt tenantsgreatly exceed owners in number (see Fig. 117). Of the 233,222 farms in the InitedStates operated by negro and non-white owners, only 9,153 are In the North and , 71 per cent of the 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 l\v Indians, Chinese, and 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, 1921.
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