Agricultural Statistics

This resource was developed as part of the Migration and the American South project.

 

 

Table 1: Number of Farms, 1935-1997

	1935	1950	1978	1997
Granville	3278	3335	1190	637
Vance	2561	2404	658	232
Warren	3187	3162	591	282

 

Table 2: Average Acreage of Farms, 1935-1997

	1935	1950	1978	1997
Granville	87.7	84.5	153	254
Vance	55.5	60.8	134	287
Warren	70.5	75.4	172	284.2

 

Table 3: Total Farm Acreage, 1935-1997

	1935	1950	1978	1997
Granville	287,481	281,925	181,779	161,818
Vance	142,136	146,109	87,946	66,584
Warren	224,684	238,270	101,568	80, 155

 

Table 4: The Decline of Tenant Farming, 1935-1978

	1935	1950	1978
Granville
No. of Tenant Farms	2073	2029	259
% of All Farms	63.2	60.8	21.8
Vance
No. of Tenant Farms	1643	1507	159
% of All Farms	64.1	62.7	24.2
Warren
No. of Tenant Farms	1818	1479	83
% of All Farms	57	46.8	14

 

Table 5: Agricultural Employment: Farm Operators and Full-time Field Hands, 1940-1992

	1940	1978	1992
Granville	5766	1921	1056
Vance	3597	911	1165
Warren	4578	789	556

 

Table 6: African American Farmers, 1945 and 1992

	1945	1945
Granville
All Af. Am. Farmer	1490	70
Af. Am. Farm Owner	249	50
Vance
All Af. Am. Farmer	858	29
Af. Am. Farm Owner	182	13
Warren
All Af. Am. Farmer	2033	62
Af. Am. Farm Owner	617	34

 

Table 7: Tobacco Crop (in Lbs.), 1935-1997

	1935	1949	1978	1997
Granville	10,390,920	15,684,712	19,755,823	18,858,688
Vance	6,878,903	10,513,995	11,742,717	10,359,877
Warren	3,158,236	6,905,567	8,124,542	6,632,314

 

Table 8: Cotton Production (in Bales), 1935-1997

	1935	1950	1978	1997
Granville	1206	511	0	125
Vance	5690	3521	0	0
Warren	17,501	10,147	0	0

 

Table 9: Mule Population

	1935	1950	1978
Granville	2,125	5,095	0
Vance	1,849	3,026	0
Warren	1,883	3,663	0

 

Table 10: Tractors in Use, 1940-1992

	1940	1945	1950	1978	1992
Granville	77	158	554	2580	1763
Vance	31	88	210	1413	799
Warren	81	219	4 81	1176	759

 

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Sources:

• U.S. Bureau of the Census, United States Census of Agriculture, 1935: Reports for States With Statistics for Counties and a Summary for the United States, 1936;
• U.S. Bureau of  the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Agriculture, Vol. 1, Part 3, Statistics for Counties, 1942; 
• U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1950 United States Census of Agriculture: 
• North Carolina and South Carolina, 1952;
• North Carolina. Bureau of the Census, 1978 Census of Agriculture, Vol. 1, Pt. 33, State and County Data, 1981;
• U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997 Census of Agriculture: Highlights of Agriculture: 1997 and 1992, North Carolina