The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26

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| $39. 80; 3 to 8 acres, $1446 10 to IS acres,
S9.97; 20 to 40 acres, $7.89; so to 80 acres,
$4.S2; 100 to ia acres, $3.41; IT'S to 259
acres, $272; go to 400 acres, $2.21; 500
to 999 acres, $1.74; and l 1000 acres and
over, $IO3
The following highly interesting table
gives valuable information.
| Number of farms in the State, 224, 637 ;
number of acres in farms, average, 1918;
total, 22,749,356: total value of farm
property, $233, 1874 693.
Number of farms, hay and grain, A
648; number of acres in farms, average,
97S; total, 4,96S PA; total value CT farm
property $4S, 643,2 8O.
Number of farms-Vegetables, 1914;
number Of acres in farm, average 1873;
total, 399,039; total value of farm prop
erty, 81. 100, 1923.
Number of farms, fruit-2191; number
of acres in farms, average, 75.S; total,
235 25S; total value of farm property,
81, 655,371
Number of farms, live stock-23, 607;
number of acres in farms, average, 116.8;
total, 2,756,147; total value of farm prop
erty, $27, 621, $40.
Number Of farms, dairy produce-917;
number of acres in farms, average,
1906; total 1O5, $685. total value Of farm
property, $1,994, 1875.
Number of farms, tobacco-22, 626;
number of acres in farms, average, 94.2;
total, 2131, 693; total value of farm prop
erty, $21 ,9O2 129.
Number of farms. cotton, $4,000; num-
Der of acres in farms average, 87.1; to-
tai, 1880 431; total value Of farm prop
erty, S4&, 522, 433.
Number of farms, rice 412; number of
acres in farms, average, 111.8; total 49,
O63 total value of farm property, $685.,
507.
Number of farms, sugar %, number
of acres in farms, average, 59.5; total
1863; total value of farm property $12,-
57S.
Number Of farms. flowers and plants
Is; number of acres in farms, average
TO- total 119; total value of farm prop
erty, $67, O95.
Number of farms, nursery products
% number of acres in farms, average,
97.6; total value of farm property, $780,
$50.
Number of farms, miscellaneous, H.
1888; number of acres in farms, average
110.5; total. S.542, 600; total value of farm
property, 1886, 092.
For the several classes of farms, the
average values per acre of products not
fed to live stock are as follows Farms
whose operators derive their principal
come from flowers and plants, $zI405;
nursery products, S5314: tobacco, $516;
dairy produce, SASS; vegetables $3.50;
cotton, $4.64 fruit, $4.26; hay and grain,
$2.99; sugar, $2.73; rice, $3.47; and live
stock, 1924. In computing these aver
ages, the total area of the farms il used
and not the acreage devoted to the crop
from which the principal income is de-
rived.
The wide variations shown in the aver
ages and percentages of gross income are
largely due to the fact that, in comput-
ing gross income, no deductions ere
made from expenditures. For florists
establishments and nurseries the aver
age expenditure for such items as labor
and fertilizers represents a far greater
percentage of the gross income than in
the case of live stock aud hay ana
grain" farms. If it were possible to
present the average net income the
variations shown would be comparatively
slight.
SOME TOBACCO FIGURES
According to the census of 1850, North
Carolina produced in 1849, II 1884, 1856
pounds of tobacco. The production in
1889 was nearly three times as great,
while the crop of 1869 fell below that Of
1919 In the two succeeding decades
there were large increases, amounting to
10, 1896, 126 pounds, or 1920 per cent, be-
tween 1870 and 1880, and to 9389,0i
pounds, or 34.S per cent, between 1880
and 1890
In 1899 tobacco was grown in North
Carolina by 51,106 farmers, who obtained
from 203.023 acres a yield of 127 503, 400
pounds, valued at 8,O3S 691 The aver
age value per pound was Go cents. The
increase in area in the last decade was
los, 946 acres, or 1921 per cent, and that
in production 91,128,142 pounds, or $500
Ter cent. The average yield per acre in
1899 was 628 pounds, against SO pounds
in 1889, and 472 pounds in 1879
OF the So counties reporting the cult
walton of tobacco in 1899, the county
having the largest acreage was Rock
ingham, with 1882 acres. Pitt county
reported the largest production, 10, 733, 90
pounds, and was closely followed 10y
Rockingham, Nash Wilson, Stokes,
Granville, Franklin, CasweH, Greene and
Person counties. in the order named
The IL leading counties OF the State con-
tanned 61.3 per cent. of the entire acre
age in tobacco and contributed $50 per
cent. of the total production.
INCREASE IN PEANUT CULTURE.
Peanuts were grown in 1899 by 1856
farmers who devoted 95,856 acres to
their cultivation. The total production
was 8 400 439 bushels an average of 361
bushels per acre In the last decade the
gain in acreage was fourfold, and that in
production sevenfold. OF the total acre
age, 66.6 per cent. was reported from
the six northeastern counties of BERTHE
BalifaX Northampton, Hartford Martin
and Edgeeombe. ranking in the order
named. The area devoted to peanut grow
ing has increased at least tenfold since
1889 in each of these counties, while
Berthe county shows gain from 528