I10 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-13TH ANNUAL REPORT

 TABLE 3.
Agricultural Statistics of Middle Florida Hammock Belt (Marion Co.), 1S90-1910.
 1880- |1899- 1909-1910
 1S0 19001 Total White Color'd
Improved acres per inhabitant --------- 3.14 2.981 3.241 6.13 1.37
Inhabitants per farm ----------------- 9.6 9.7 12.5 9.2 16.3
Per cent of farmers, white ------------ ..-_ 49.4 53.2 
Per cent of farmers, owners ---------- 89 82.3 S6.7 S7.8 85.6

Per cent of farmers, managers .3.3 2.2 3.7 0.4
Per cent of farmers, tenants 10.2 14.4 11.1 8.5 14.0
Average number of acres per farm 97.2 79.9 101.5 151.0 45.3
Average improved acres per farm 30.2 28.8 1 40.5 56.5 22.3
Value of farm land per acre ($) ----- ..... .6.001 14.21 15.24 10.33
Value of farm land per farm --.- 482 1441 2295 468
 -3925!
Value of buildings per farm ---------- 2791 462 6871 206
Value of implements and machinery___ 43 45 104 1521 49
Value of live-stock, poultry, etc. __-.__ 225 206 454
Number of dairy cows per farm --._-. 4.3 2.6 2.6 3.8 1.1
Number of other cattle per farm ..__- 7.5 1 9.5 1 13.7
Number of horses per farm ----------- 1.1 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.0
Number of mules per farm ----------- 0.3 I 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.1
Number of hogs per farm ------------ 10.0 10.3 17.7 -------Number of sheep per farm ------------ 2.9 1.6 3.5
Number of poultry per farm ...-_.._- 27.7 I 31.0 1 30.2-----Expenditures per farm for fertilizer_ 24.30 12.55 67.601------I---Expenditures per farm for labor ------ ----- 50.301 146.001
Expenditures per farm for feed ------- -------_..-26.10
Annual value of crops per farm- .----- 853-------3941 37611
Annual value of animal products ------I-- 173- I
Expend. fertilizer per acre improved. .--1 .431 1.67
Expend. labor per acre improved ------ ----- 1.74J 3.62 -Value of crops per acre improved ---- ----. ------ 21.00 

 The leading crops in 1909 were "vegetables," corn, oranges,
peanuts, hay, oats, grape-fruit, sweet potatoes, cane syrup, cowpeas, cotton (both kinds) and Irish potatoes.
 In 1913-14 the order was, oranges, cantaloupes, sea-island cotton, watermelons, corn, velvet beans, lettuce, tomatoes, (string)
beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, cabbage, upland cotton, cucumbers, cowpeas, cane syrup, (grass) hay, squashes, oats, egg-plants; ancd

in 1917-18 corn, sea-island cotton, peanuts, oranges, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, string beans, syrup, velvet beans, (including hay), upland cotton, watermelons, cowpeas, (and hay thereof), grass hay, tomatoes, lettuce, oats, cabbage, cantaloupes, cucumbers, and grape-fruit.
 The leading animal products in 19Q9 were hogs, beef cattle,
poultry and eggs, milk, butter, wool, and honey.