GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 273

 CONDITIONS IN 1919-20
 At this writing only a few preliminary returns from the federal census of Jan. 1, 1920, are available, not enough to warrant the construction of a table for.the different regions; but the following results will indicate in a general way the developments of a decade ii central Florida as a whole. The percentage of farm land has increased to 17.9 and of improved land to 5.4, or 1.61 acres per inhabitant. The percentage of white farmers has increased a little, to 85.4, while owners and managers together constitute 89.3% of all farmers, a trifle less than in 1910. The farms are a little larger now, averaging io6.8 acres with 32.2 improved, but this may be due entirely to the larger proportion of white farmers.
 The apparent value of land and buildings per farm has more than doubled, being $8,400, but as the dollar of 1920 was probably worth less than half that of 1910, this does not necessarily indicate any increase in rural standards of living. The number of certain animals per farm is as follows: Horses 0.94, mules 0.46, cattle 13.9, sheep 0.78, hogs 12.6. This is a decrease in everything except mules, and' probably indicates a further approach to the conditions prevailing in the east coast strip, where very intensive farming is done with a minimum of live-stock. Some of the horses may have been replaced by mechanical tractors, but that change is likely to be much more marked in the next ten years than in the last ten, if the supply of oil holds out. Statistics of farm expenditures and the value of crops and animal products have not yet been received, but it is altogether likely that they will show a notable increase in intensity of farming.
 The amount of improved land at present is only about half enough to feed the population, and however much this may be deplored by our patriotic citizens, this part of the country will doubtless continue indefinitely to be a large importer of food; for in order to become self-supporting the farm population would have to increase faster than the city population, something that has never happened to any notable extent in the whole history of the United States, the tendency being constantly in -the other direction.