■Farm Tenancy Shows Decline
fFarm tenancy in North Caro
|a decreased sharply from 1954
1959, reaching its lowest level
ce 1880.
A preliminary report from the
^*'59 Census of Agriculture shows
* .f iat 31.4 per cent of the farms
I: North Carolina were tenant
Iterated in 1959 as compared
i'ith 36.9 per cent five years
# arlier. The national- percentage
| was 20.5 in 1959.
j Translated into actual num
I hers, North Carolina had 59,925
| tenants in 1959 as compared with
f 98.819 in 1954. The total num
i
ber of farms in the state de
clined from 267,906 to 190,567
during the period. A change in
the definition of a farm account
ed for 16,661 of the loss.
For Brunswick county in 1959,
there were 1605 farms and 159
tenants lived on farms in the
county. This represents 8.1 per
cent of the farms are cared for
by tenants. In 1954 8.6 per cent
of the county farms were cared
for by tenants.
Robeson county is listed as hav
ing the most farms with 5,982
and it also has the most tenants
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with 3,531. Dare county recorded
the least number of tenants with
one but then there are only 21
farms in that county.
Dr. Selz C. Mayo, head of
the Department of Rural Soci
ology at North Carolina State
college, says that farm tenancy
in North Carolina reached its
peak about 1930.
While the percentage of tenants
has been declining since then
the decrease in North Carolina
has not been as rapid as in
other Southern states.
He attributes this slower de
crease to tobacco, which has been
called America’s last great un
mechanized crop.
In 1959, for example, 18 Tar
Heel counties still had over half
their farms operated by tenants.
Edgecombe led the list with 74.1
per cent. Others (listed in order
of tenancy percentage) were
Greene, Wilson, Pitt, Nash, Robe
son, Hertford, Granville, Scot
land, Person, Lenoir, Martin,
Vance, Halifax. Wayne, Bertie,
Hoke and Caswell.
All counties falling in the over
50 per cent category are heavy
producers of tobacco with the
exception of Scotland, Bertie and
Hoke, which produce either cot
ton or peanuts in large amounts.
Watauga had the distinction of
having the lowest percentage of
tenants in 1959—1 per cent as
compared with 8 per cent in
1954.
MoBt mountain counties had
very few tenants. Alexander, Al
leghany, Avery, Burke, Caldwell,
Macon and Watauga, for ex
ample, had less than 5 per cent.
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7:15 Doug Edwards
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8:00 Donna Reed Show
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3:30 From These Roots
4:00 Room for Daddy
4:30 Edge of Night
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8:00 My 3 Sons
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11:00 Fury
11:30 Rone Ranger
12:00 True Story
12:30 Air Force Story
12:45 Ind. on Parade
12:55 Baseball
5:30 Belmont Horse Race
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4:45 Avalon Holiday
5:00 Retrospect
5:30 Ask About School
6:00 The Days Ahead
6:30 News
6:10 Rook at Sports
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7:00 Grouch Marx
7:30 Bonanza
8:30 Tall Man
0:00 Deputy
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10:00 Robert Taylor
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11:00 Royal Family
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12:30 This is the Rife
12:55 Baseball
!:30 Oral Roberts
1:00 The Answer
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4:15 Art Rinkletter
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4 00 Room For Daddy
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7:15 Doug Edwards
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When a Texas chicken rancher
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Both the hens and the rancher
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