GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 259


 TABLE 28.
 Agricultural Statistics of Central Florida, 1850-1880.
 1 1850 1860 11870- 1880
Per cent of land in farms ---------------------- 1.2 3.8 5.7 7.6
Per cent of land improved ----------------------- 0.2 1.0 2.0 1.6
Improved acres per inhabitant ------------------- 2.7 4.6 6.7 3.1
Inhabitants per farm --------------------------- 12.6 17.3 10.0 8.7
Total acres per farm ------------------------- 172.3 291.6 1S7.6 136.0
Improved acres per farm ---------------- 33.5 79.5 66.6 27.6
Value of land and buildings per farm ($) ------- 1195 25501 578 1354 Value of implements and machinery per farm ---- 172 119 42 29
Value of livestock, poultry, etc., per farm --------1 696 11491 583 278
Number of slaves per farm --------------------1 4.3 1 7.3 ---------Number of horses per farm -----------------..--1 1.8 2.2 1.1 1.2
Number of- mules per farm ---------------------- 0.5 1.5 0.7 0.2
Number of work oxen -------------------------- 0.9 0.7 0.3 I 0.7
Number of milch cows per farm ----------------- 22.4 27.4 6.1 1.7
Number of other cattle per farm ---------------- 74.1 102.0 50.0 26.4
Number of sheep per farm ---------------------- 0.8 3.2 0.4 I 1.4
Number of hogs per farm ---------------------I 37.4 43.0 13.5 I 13.2
Number of chickens per farm ..---.------------------- ------------ 16.0
Number of other poultry per farm .--------- ------ --- ------ 5.7
Expenditure for fertilizers, per farm ---------------------I-------1 $2.91
Value of animals slaughtered, per farm ---------- 295.60 154.001 42.401
Value of orchard products, per farm -----------. 0.26 4.091 6.171
 1 1 1 $285
Value of market garden produce, per farr -------1 0.471 0.61 0.041 Value of staple crops, per farm ---------------I ------I ------ ----- I


from long cultivation, and the farmers were seeking fresher fields elsewhere. At the same time the number of farms nearly doubled, perhaps indicating a large immigration of small farmers from northern Florida or other states and countries. In i88o commercial fertilizers were just beginning to be used, the expenditure for them the previous season having been at the rate of iI cents for each acre of improved land in the Whole area (only about 2 cents in Marion County, and none at all in Hernando).


 CONDITIONS IN 1889-90 AND 1894-5.

 The establishment of Citrus, Lake, Osceola and Pasco Counties in 1887 made it possible to use the 1890 statistics for separate regions, as shown in Table 29. But the'percentage of farm land and improved land cannot be estimated accurately for those regions that cover less than half of any one county, which accounts for some blanks in the first two lines of figures.