128 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT


 Agriculture. Farming developed rather late in this region, and
 is of a more specialized type than in the regions previously described. Both in 1890 and in 1910 only about 16% of the area
 was in farms and 3.2% improved. The principal features of agriculture in this region since the establishment of Lake County are shown in Table 5.
 TABLE 5.
 Agricultural Statistics of Lake Region (Lake & Orange Cos.), 1890-1910
 18S9- 11899- I 1909-1910
 1 IS900 19001 Total I White!Color'd
Improved acres per inhabitant -------__ 2.221 2.281 1.65 2.511 0.33
Inhabitants per farm ----------------- 5.97 9.131 11.3 7.551 43.0
Per cent of farmers white ------------------ I 92.8 89.7 ------I ---Per cent of farmers, owners ----__-___ 75.2 80.6 80.2 I 83.7

Per cent of farmers, managers -------_ 18.4 11.9 12.6 5.7
Per cent of farmers, tenants ---_.-_-__ 2.1 6.4 7.5 7.2 10.7
Average number of acres per farm ---.-1 66.71 84.0 92.8 I 98.9 39.5 Average improved acres per farm ____ 13.5 1 20.7 18.7 1 19.2 14.0 Value of farm land per acre ($) -____- 1 19.301 41.801 41.551 46.80
Value of farm land per farm --------) 1620' 38801 41101 1850
 48501 1 1
Value of buildings per farm ---------- I 5131 10091 1070 495
Value of implements and machinery_ __ 411 57 1471 1551 74
Value of live-stock, poultry, etc. ------I 107 2601 408-------INumber of dairy cows per farm ---- 2.3 I 1.5 1.1 1.2 1 0.8
Number of other cattle per farm -.--_ 8.0 16.0 I 16.5 1 -----Number of horses per farm ----------- 0.6 I 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.7
Number of mules per farm -----------1 0.2 I 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
Number of hogs per farm ------------ 2.2 9 9.3 I 9.8 -----Number of sheep per farm ----------- 0.1 I 0.8 0.3 -----Number of poultry per farm ___-_-.__ 17.7 1 21.4 1 21.7 ---------Expenditures per farm for fertilizer__ 87.001 36.20 165.001---------Expenditures per farm for labor _-_--- I 77.201 190.001-------I---Expenditures per farm for feed ------_I----I------. 86.401---------Annual value of crops per farm ----- I 926-------'3811 2821 1 1
Annual value of animal products ----- I 1 1211-----------Expend. fertilizer per acre improved_--- 6.421 1.741 8.841--------Expend. labor per acre improved ------ I----- 3.721 10.201------I---Value of crops per acre improved .---_ ...--- 49.701 I


 The census of 1910 reported two farmers in central Florida who were neither white nor negro; one in Orange County and one in Volusia. The writer, has no information about the color of the former, but the one in Volusia County is a Chinaman, who lives near DeLand (therefore in the lake region), and has made something of a reputation with his oranges. By subtracting the returns for negro farmers from those for all colored farmers, it