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of double cropping and intercropping practices in the survey area, total acres

by type of crop exceed the acreage of cropland in crops as shown in Table 42 by

some 1,700 acres. The 368 farmers reported 21,019 acres in various crops for

1956. The acreage in corn exceeded that of any other single crop and accounted

for 54 percent of total acres in crops. Acres devoted to the three allotment

crops, peanuts, tobacco, and cotton, totaled 2,671 and constituted approximately

13 percent of the total.

 Where comparisons were possible between white and nonwhite operators

 (economic classes IV, V, and VI), the data indicate that on the average nonwhite

 farmers grew nearly as many acres of corn, substantially more acres of peanuts,

 tobacco and cotton, and fewer acres of watermelons, oats, soybeans, and other

 crops as white farmers.

 On the basis of cropland used (Table 44), residential and part-time

farms of whites had larger proportions in the smaller size classes than those

of nonwhites. More than half of the residential farms operated by white

families were less than 5 acres in size. By contrast, almost half of the

residential farms operated by nonwhite families were more than 10 acres in size

measured in terms of cropland used. For none of the residential farms in the

survey, however, were as many as 50 acres of cropland reported. Approximately

38 percent of the part-time farms operated by white families reported less than

10 acres of cropland compared with 14 percent of the nonwhite part-time farms.

 The reverse was true for commercial farms. More than a third of the

nonwhite commercial farmers reported less than 30 acres of cropland used com-

pared with less than a fourth of the white commercial farmers. Approximately

16 percent of the white operators reported cropland in excess of 150 acres while

less than 4 percent of the nonwhite operators reported this amount.

 In general, as economic class of farm increased the acreage of crop-

land used increased. Part-time class V and class VI farms tended to cluster in