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appears that be had in 1910 I 15 acres, of Avhic1h 20 were improved, land worth $4,000 (or $34.80 per acre), buildings worth $i,ooo, and implements and machinery $150. The one in Orange County was probably Chinese or Japanese and a truck-farmer, for he had only two acres, all improved, worth $ioo or $50 per acre, buildings worth $750, and no implements or machinery vorth mentioning.
 In several places. in this region corporations have. acquired large tracts of land and sold it in small parcels, commonly of ten acres, to persons who may have never been in Florida at all, to -be planted to oranges or other citrous* fruits. For the sum agreed upon the corporations set out the trees desired, cultivate them, market the fruit when it matures, and remit the profits (if any) to the absent owners; and this sort of business if efficiently managed may be very satisfactory to all concerned. Technically each indi idual holding is a farm, operated by a manager, without buildings or livestock; but practically the owners are merely stockholders in a large farming enterprise; and different interpretations of this point by the census might make a considerable difference in the per farm statistics.
 The leading crops in i9o9s-in order of value, by United States census, were oranges (a little over half the total), "vegetables, grape-fruit, hay, corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, sugar-cane (syrup), peaches, and pears. In 1913-14, according to the. State Agricultural Department, oranges (nearly half), celery, lettuce, grape-fruit, tomatoes, watermelons, (grass) hay, corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, (string?) beans, cabbage and cucumbers. In 1917I8, oranges, celery, corn, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, grape-fruit, watermelons, cabbage, Irish potatoes, "native grass" hay, sweet potatoes, string beans, cowpeas (and hay), egg-plants, Natal grass hay, sea-island cotton, beets, squashes, and upland cotton. Peanuts, which constitute something like a fifth of the total crop value in the lime-sink region, make less than a thousandth in the lake region, perhaps on account of the scarcity of lime in the upland soils.

 *It is a common and apparently growing-but not altogether commendable-practice to write the noun citrus, the generic name of oranges, lemons, kumquats, etc., instead of the adjective citbous.