A revised census compiled by L. V. Henson, Quitman County Agent, gives the following information about Quitman County for the year 1955:
395 square miles in Quitman County
254,193 acres in Quitman County
240,000 taxable acres
174,265.5 cultivated acres, crop land
64,841 acres to cotton–82,000 bales
15,000 acres to pasture
18,500 acres to small grain–average yield per acre, 20 bushels,–370,000 bushels
35,000 acres–soybeans for oil–700,000 bushels
10,000 acres to corn–250,000 bushels
10,000 acres to truck and gardens
10,000 acres to hay and forage crops
5,000 acres to seed patches and cover crops
1,400 acres to rice–75 bushels per acre yield
25,885 population:
10,183 whites
15,702 non-whites
4,700 children of all races now attending school
18 regular organized Protestant churches in county, no Catholic:
10 Baptist
5 Methodist
2 Presbyterian
1 Christian
Works Progress Administration for Mississippi, Source Material for Mississippi History, Quitman County, Vol. LX, Compiled by State-Wide Historical Research Project, Susie V. Powell, State Supervisor, Illustrated 1936-1938, Addenda
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