GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 103

 TALE 2.

 Agricultural Statistics of Lime Sink Region (Levy & Citrus Cos.) 1890-1910.

 I188s- 11899- I 1909-1910
 1 1S90| 19001 Total White IColor'd Improved acres per inhabitant -...__--3.S3 2.56 2.56 4.4 0 0.64
Inhabitants per farm ---------------.. 10.0 12.7 17.1 10.7 45.2
Per cent of farmers white ------------ ----- 82.3 S1.4 --------_--Per cent of farmers, owners ---------- 92.4 S j 81.7 81.2 82.8 74.6
Per cent of farmers, managers ------- 2.8 0.7 0.8 0
Per cent of farmers, tenants _-_.-_..._ 7.6 | 15.5 18.1 16.4 25.4
Average number of acres per farm ---. 136.3 109.0 159.0 180.0 68.7 Average improved acres per farm ---- 38.S 32.7 43.9 47.3 28.8 Value of farm land per acre ($) _____1 _____ 5.401 7.36 7.25 8.63 Value of farm land per farm -------- 1 5S 1170 1305 594

Value of buildings per farm ...___ --__ 1 2321 340 379 168
Value of implements- and machinery..- 461 381 98 113| -32
Value of live-stoek, poultry, ete. .._-.----3 358- 538 -----Number of dairy cows per farm ------ 4.9 3.0 1 3.3 3.6 1.4
Number of other cattle per farm ------ 14.7 I 26.6 j 26.5 ------ ---_Number of horses per farm ---------- 1.6 I 1.7 I 1.6 I 1.4. 1.2
Number of mules per farm ------------ 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1
Number of hogs per farm ------------ 15 16.9 31.4 -----Number of sheep per farm ------------ 1.8 3.0 1.1 -- ---Number of poultry per farm -----.-- 28.2 27.3 1 29.8 ----- ----Expenditures per farm for fertilizer_-.- 3.74 1 1.451 29.80- 
Expenditures per farm for labor-.-____---___ 25.10 49.50Expenditures per farm fpr feed -_-.-_- -..-- __..._ 36.601------I
Annual value of crops per farm ------ I 6201------I
 2721 3401
Annual value of animal products ----- ) 2223401 -Expend. fertilizer per acre improved__-- .101 .04 .6 -- I -Expend. labor per acre improved .---- .77 1.13 
Value of crops per acre improved --_ ..- I ---- 14.101 ----- ---In 1917-18, according to the state agricultural department, the leading crops were sea-island cotton, peanuts, corn, sweet potatoes, velvet beans, (including hay thereof), sugar-cane,
cucumbers, cow-peas (including hay),cabbage, oranges, (grass) hay, oats, watermelons, pecans, Irish potatoes, peaches, eggplants, squashes, pears, castor beans (a "war crop," not raised much before or since), tomatoes, string beans, upland cotton, lettuce and plums. If we had data for the lime-sink portions of Hernando, Pasco, Hillsboro and Pinellas Counties no doubt oranges would take a much higher rank and peanuts and cotton a lower. This region leads the rest of central Florida in the relative importance of peanuts, as it does in hogs.




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