This amount represents an increase of over 2,330,000 acres since 1900 but is nevertheless only 4.4 per cent of the total farm land in the South.

As tenants or managers, negroes cultivated in addition nearly 27,000,000 acres.

In other words, 29.8 per cent of the population owned 4.4 per cent of the land and cultivated 12 per cent of it.

The total value of the land owned was $273,000,000, an average of $1250 to the farm.[1] [Footnote 1: It must be noted, however, that during the decade ending in 1910, the percentage of increase in negro farm owners was 17 as against 12 for the whites, and of increase in the value of their holdings was 156 per cent as against 116 per cent for whites, while the proportion of white tenants increased.

The other property of the negro can only be estimated, as most States do not list the races separately.