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over 10 years old in Brevard County in 1910, only 1.1% of the native whites, 4.5% of the foreign whites, and 17.1% of the Ilegroes were illiterate. The figures for native whites and negroes are the lowest in central Florida.

 The leading religious denominations among the whites in Brevard County in 1916 were Baptist, Southern Methodist, Northern Methodist (?), Catholic, Episcopalian, Northern Presbyterian, Advent Christian, Disciples of Christ, and Congregationalist; and among the negroes, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, Baptist, A. M. E., and Northern Methodist.

 Agricuituirc. Dr. Turnbull's Minorcan colony was primarily an agricultural one, and it is said that in 1772 they had about 3,000 acres of hammock land planted in indigo. But the modern intensive agriculture goes back only about thirty years. On account of the rather dense population, the mild climate, and the fact that most of the farms are within a mile of a railroad that can take express shipments to New York in less than two days (with double track most of the way), farming is now more intensive and specialized here than in any other region in Florida, although the soil probably averages the poorest in the State.

 The ratio of improved land to total area cannot be. estimated accurately, because the region does not cover as much as half of any county, but the statistics for Brevard County illustrate agricultural conditions very well in other respects.

 The specialized farming that prevails here evidently sets too fast a pace for the average negro, as shown by the considerably higher proportion of white.s among the farmers. than among the total population. The proportion of farms operated by managers is very large, and this probably indicates that quite a number of orange groves are owned by people who do not live in Florida at all, or spend only the winter season here. (The census of 1900 was taken in June, and that of 1910 in April.) The managers' farms in 1910 averaged 79 acres with 16.8 improved, and land and buildings worth $15,375II