152 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

 TABLE S.
 Agricultural Statistics of East Coast Strip (Brevard Co.), 1890-1910.
 11889- 91899- 1 1909-1910
 I 1890 19001 Total I White lColor'd
Improved acres per inhabitant -------- 0.68 1.41 1.02 1.31 0.33
Inhabitants per farm ----------------- 21.8 8.4 11.0 8.8 26.4
Per cent of farmers white ------------ ----- 94.1 87.6 ----- ----.Per cent of farmers, owners ---------- 80.0 76.4 79.0 5S.5

Per cent of farmers, managers -------- 16.1 1 19.9 1S.6 28.4
Per cent of farmers, tenants ------- 0 3.9 I 3.7 2.4 13.2
Average number of acres per farm --- 114.5 62.0 59.7 63.8 j 31.4 Average improved acres per farm 14.8 11.8 11.2 11.6 8.8
Value of farm land per acre ($) ------ ---- 43.20 97.76 96.001 123.00
Value of farm land per farm -------- 10,8 2680 5830 61251 3860

Value of buildings per farm ---------- 7851 14751 15901 656
Value of implements and machinery_-- 271 43 S1 831 63
Value of live-stock, poultry, etc. __ 2331 260 249 ------.I---Number of dairy cows per farm ..---- 1.7 1.11 0.7 -----I-----Number of other cattle per farm _____ 18.5 15.8 11.1 ----- -----Number of horses per farm ----------- 0.6 0.4 0.5 ----- ----..
Number of mules per farm ----------- 1-0.2 0.1 0.2 ------ ---Number of hogs per farm ----------- 1.8 8.3 6.9 ------ ---Number of sheep per farm ----------- 0 0 0 I
Number of poultry per farm ----_ 37.1 19.1 I 18.4 ---Expenditures per farm for fertilizer--1 54.601 62.301 148.001 ------I 
Expenditures per farm for labor ------ ---- 112.001 294.00 ------I
Expenditures per farm for feed ------- ----- ----- 81.00 ------I 
Annual value of crops per farm ------- I 1355 ------I8521 338 I
Annual value of animal products I 661-----I---Expend. fertilizer per acre improved--- 3.68 5.261 13.151 ------IExpend. labor per acre improved ------ ----- 9.48 26.101 ------I .-Value of crops per acre improved ----- I ------ 1 120.501 --The number of improved acres per inhabitant is low, on account of the large town population, the importance of other industries than agriculture, and the intensive farming. The farms average
the smallest in central Florida, but have the most valuable land and buildings. Live-stock is relatively unimportant, the rather large number of beef cattle per farm being probably due to a few :attle ranches in the flatwoods part of Brevard County. (It is a curious
fact that neither State nor government censuses have ever found any sheep in this county.) The number of work animals averages
less than one per farm, showing that some farms are worked by hand labor only. The expenditures of all kinds per farm an:1 per
acre are very high, but so are the profits, in favorable seasons.