- I I8 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT


 TABLE 4.
 Agricultural Statistics of Hernando Hammock Belt (Hernando & Pasco Cos.) 1890-1910.
 ]1889- 1899- I 1909-1910
 1 18901 19001 Total j White Color'd
 Improved acres per inhabitant -------- '3.05 2.241 1.74 2.72 0.37
 Inhabitants per farm ----------------- 6.03 10.2 1 12.9 8.2 64.6
 Per cent of farmers white ------------- ---- 87.3 1 91.6 --- ---Per cent of farmers, owners _--______ 85.1 83.8 84.5 76.6
 92.5
 Per cent of farmers, managers __-_-__ 1.5 1.9 2.0 1.2
 Per cent of farmers, tenants _-________ 7.5 13.4 14.3 13.5 22.2
 Average number of acres per farm ---- 97.3 74.5 76.8 77.0 72.6
 Average improved acres per farm ...- 18.5 22.8 22.4 22.3 23.6
 Value of farm land per acre ($) ----- ----- 7.921 19.65 19.751 18.45
 Value of farm land per farm? --___-__ 2 590 1518 1520 1340

 Value of buildings per farm ---_-___ 2901 4941 523! 162
 Value of implements and machinery..__ 27! 46 87 87 51
 Value of live-stock, poultry, etc. 1891 330 473 ---.-I -----.
 Number of dairy cows per farm ----- 2.7 I 2.5 1.6 --------.---Number of other cattle per farm ____- 10.4 I 24.3 22.1 ---- -----.
 Number of horses per farm ----------- 1.0 I 1.4 1.5 -- --Number of mules per farm ----------- 0.1 0.1 0.2 -Number of hogs per farm ------------ 11.3 16.0 22.6 -----...
 Number of sheep per farm ------------ 0.8 1.6 1.6 ------ --Number of poultry per farm __---_ 21.3 29.0 26.4 ------ ---Expenditures per farm for fertilizer 7.651 9.60 32.30 ------.---Expenditures per farm for labor ------ ----- 34.40 62.00 -----------Expenditures per farm for feed ------- ----- ------ 36.80 ------ -----Annual value of crops per farm __ 168! 3 4731 ------I.----18 3781
 Annual value of animal products ------- 1 123 ----------Expend. fertilizer per acre improved...-! .42 .42 1.44 -----------Expend. labor per acre improved _---- _-- 1.51 2.75 ------ ----Value of crops per acre improved --- 21.10 --.--. -----The leading crops in 1909, by the U. S. census, were "vegetables,"
 corn, oranges, sweet potatoes, cane syrup, tobacco (mostly near
 Dade City), grape-fruit, peanuts, and strawberries..
 In 1913-14, according to the state agricultural department, sweet
 potatoes, oranges, corn, grape-fruit, tobacco, cowpeas, (including hay), syrup, velvet beans (and hay), peanuts, (string?) beans, and watermelons; and in 1917-18, sea-island cotton, corn, oranges, grape-fruit, sweet potatoes, syrup, peanuts, upland cotton, cowpeas (and hay), velvet beans (and hay), castor beans, watermelons,
 peaches, and Irish potatoes.