OKLAHOMA COLORED FARMERS

SOURCE: The Negro Farmer - Saturday, June 6, 1914. Published by the Negro Farmer Publishing Company, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. - Isaac Fisher, Editor and Business Manager

• There are 20,671 colored farmers in the State.

• These farmers work 2,276,711 acres of land.

• They own 1,599,655 acres of land.

• The value of their property, land and buildings, increased from $14,149,980 in 1900 to $47,221,793 in 1910.

• Fifty-three and nine--tenths per cent of the colored farmers in the State own their farms.

• Forty-five and nine-tenths per cent of these farmers are tenants.

• In 1900, 746,916 acres of the farms worked by colored farmers were improved land; in 1910, 1,172,819 acres were improved.