264 "FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

 The Middle Florida hammock belt has negroes in the majority among the farmers, as in total population. The eastern division of the flatwoods leads in live-stock, as before, and the east coast strip in value of farm land and intensity of farming, despite its rather poor soils.
 The State census of 1905, under the direction of H. S. Elliot,* gave much the same sort of information about agriculture as did the federal census five years before, and under the head of livestock made a distinction between "native" and "thoroughbred" cattle, though the oxen and dairy cows counted may be of both kinds. But the total value of livestock in each county is obtainable only by adding up the figures for several different kinds, which has not been done, as it would involve some duplication for the reason just mentioned, and besides, the live-stock values are more or less interspersed with other things in the county tables, making it rather irksome to pick them out. It would be a still greater task to get the quantity and value of various crops and animals for the whole State, for that would necessitate adding the figures for each kind for the whole 46 counties, which was not done in the census volume. In getting the total value of farm products there
is still another difficulty, namely, the county totals as published seem to include not only crops and animal products, but also the value of all animals on hand, which makes a considerable exaggeration.
 The number of white and colored farmers was given, but no separate statistics for the two races. As in the other State cen*Mr. Elliot, who died June 24, 1920, had charge of practically all the statistical work of the State agricultural department during the last thirty years of his life, and was the author of a 591-page handbook of Florida published in 1904 (see our Third Annual Report, p. 363), and of numerous hort articles. He was well informed, careful and conscientious, but too modest to attach his name to his handbook and census reports, and too good-natured to insist on the printers and others who worked tinder his direction doing their work properly. And some of the typographical and other errors in the census reports are doubtless due to his being inadequately supplied with clerical assistance. There is a brief sketch of his life in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Agricultural Department for July 1, 1920, but it was gotten up on too short notice to do him justice.