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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CHART E. 



Coiisider this chart iii detail. Note tlie labor income of each farm 

 and find the cause of the difference. Notice that every measurement 

 of size adopted on this chart shows farm A and farm B are both larger 



than the average and if good size is all that is necessary for a 



good 



income, these farmers should both be better than average. Farm B has 

 a smaller acreage but more live stock and we can consider size of busi- 

 ness on these two farms about equal. The first glance under quality, 

 we see that the stock on farm B is of poor quality and is giving very 

 poor returns — much less than average returns for the region and only 

 about half of what the returns per unit on farm A. This farmer doubt- 

 less has realized that Lis stock is not making as good returns as he 

 would like but he did not know the condition to be as bad as it is. 

 These figures show him that this is the weak spot in his farm business 

 and the improvement of his stock is the big problem for him. It may 

 pay to sell off his stock and buy new; he hesitates to do it, fearing he 

 will make a bad matter worse. A safer and more conservative method 

 is to weed out the unprofitable ones, send the boarder co\\'s to the block, 

 and raise up better ones. With this course tentatively decided upon, 

 we can proceed with farther analysis and determine if there are other 

 points to consider. His horses handle only 12 acres of crops each, 5 

 acres less than the average and 9 acres less than farm A. He is keeping 

 5 horses to do the work of 3. This may be because his work is so ar- 

 ranged that he needs 5 horses at certain seasons of the year and other 

 seasons the horses are idle; if so, he had better make a new arrange- 

 ment which will better distribute his horse labor throughout the sea- 

 son. If his horses are so small or so old that it takes 5 to do the 

 work of 3, he had better dispose of thein and get better ones. His crop 

 yields are very satisfactory and apparently there is little to criticize 

 there. We conclude then that this farm has good size of business and 



