266 Report of Farmers* Institutes 



FARM ORGANIZATION 

 BALANCE BETWEEN CROPS AND STOCK, CROP ROTATION, AND LABOR 



DISTRIBUTION 



K. C. LiVERMORE 



It is impossible in so short a time to discuss with any degree of 

 completeness the subject assigned. So I shall bring to your atten- 

 tion only a few more or less disconnected ideas on the subject. 

 I shall assume that you are familiar with the farm management 

 principles explained and illustrated in Cornell Bulletins 295, 

 "An Agricultural Survey of Townships of Ithaca, Dry den, Danby 

 and Lansing, Tompkins County, New York," and 349, " Some 

 Important Factors for Success in General Fanning and in Dairy 

 Fanning " ; Warren's " Farm- Management," as well as the recent 

 reports of fann management surveys from the farm bureaus and 

 the office of Farm Management. 



FARM ORGANIZATION AND DAIRY CONFORMATION 



The essentials of successful farm organization are as simple, as 

 logical and as readily understandable and appreciable as the 

 essentials of good conformation for dairy cows. Years of observa- 

 tion by fanners, and much study and measurement by scientific 

 men, have resulted in a fairly definite ideal of dairy cow con- 

 formation. The ideal is generally accepted, probably because the 

 relation of this conformation to high production is essentially 

 physical. Production depends primarily on digestive organs being 

 large enough to receive and handle large quantities of raw 

 material ; the circulatory system being capable of conducting large 

 quantities of blood to the udder; and the udder being active and 

 large enough to secrete and store large quantities of milk. 



Farm management workers, as a result of investigations and 

 observations, have come to recognize an ideal of fann organiza- 

 tion ; and the relation of this organization to farm profits also is 

 essentially physical. The ideal is a business sufficiently large and 

 sufficiently diversified to make efficient use of considerable quan- 

 tities of the raw materials — labor, primarily, and capital ; and 

 a business with the rates of crop and stock production somewhat 

 above the average. 



