262 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-13TH ANNUAL REPORT


State, on account of having a larger proportion of white farmers, if for no other reason. But as the northern Florida farms were
considerably larger, many of them must have required the services
of more than one family. In value of products per acre, however, central Florida was far ahead of northern- Florida then, as now.

 TABLE 30.
 Agricultural Statistics of Central Florida and the Rest of the State, 1S94-5.
 Central Rest of I Wjhole
 Floridaf State I State
Per cent of land in farms ------------------------1 10.241 10.601 10.50
Per cent of land improved ------------------------- I 3.041 3.43 3.33
Improved acres per inhabitant ---------------------.. _ 2.24 2.62 2.51
Inhabitants per farm ---------------------------- 9.73 14.05 12.21
Average number of acres per farm ------------------ 73.3 118.7 99.3
Average improved acres per farm ----..--------.-- 21.3 I 36.S 31.4
Value of land, fences and buildings per farm ---------- 18201 7S81 115, Value of implements and machinery per farm -------- 55.551 22.101 34.10
Expenditures in 1S94, per farm, for
 Labor, including board furnished ---------------- 52.201 2S.00 36.SO
 Fertilizers -------------------------------------. 37.201 9.101 19.20
Value of products in 1S94, per farm ------------------ 6351 5901 607
Expenditure in 1894, per acre improved in 1895, for I I
 Labor, etc. -..------- -------------------------I 2.401 0.76 1.17
 Fertilizers --- .------------------------------------ 1.711 0.25 0.61
Value of products in 1894, per acre improved in 1S95__I 29.20 16.00 19.30

 In comparing values for 1895 with those for other periods it is well to bear in mind that a year or two after that average commodity prices reached the lowest ebb ever known in the whole history of the United States, or in other words, the purchasing power of the dollar was greatest.


 CONDITIONS IN 1899-1900 AND 1904-5.

 For 1899-1900 we have more complete agricultural data than ever before. For the first time the farmers are divided according to race, and the value of buildings separated from that of land and fences: but there are no separate statistics for white and colored farmers for areas smaller than states, except in regard to land tenure. Goats and bees are also returned for the first time.*

 *Cattle are subdivided rather minutely as to age and sex, but for our purposes that has been a drawback rather than an advantage, for it necessitates adding together several figures in the same line to get the number of cows, steers, etc., and even then the results may not be strictly comparable with those of other censuses.