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organization on some jefferson county farms 



To better illustrate the simple physical, in fact almost mathe» 

 matical, relation between fann organization and profits, some 

 Jefferson county farms will be studied briefly. In Table I the 

 three most important features of a farm business — size, diversity 

 and production — are measured and tabulated. Labor efficiency 

 is also measured and tabulated. The middle column of the table 

 gives the average of 670 faniis in that region. 



There were 73 crop acres and 15 cows on the average farm. 

 Altogether the business provided 416 units of productive man 

 work. The crop index of 100 represents the following yields per 

 acre: corn 36.4 bushels, corn silage 9.9 tons, potatoes 124 bushels, 

 oats 30.8 bushels, barley 24.4 bushels, oats and barley 33.5 

 bushels, oats, peas and barley 33.6 bushels, hay 1.44 tons. Re- 

 ceipts per cattle unit amounted to $61. Of the total receipts 

 from crops and stock, 22 per cent came from crops. Milk was 

 the only product that amounted to $500. The labor on the 

 average farm was equivalent to 1.7 men for a year. Each man 

 farmed 43 acres of crops and cared for 12 units of productive 

 animals. Each horse farmed 21 acres of crops. There were 244 

 work units per man and 62 per horse. The average labor income 

 was $609, This is what the average farmer in that region made 

 above all farm expenses and interest on the capital invested in the 

 business. Besides this the farm furnished him a house and farm 

 products to use. 



ISTow let the size, production, diversity and work rate on the 

 average farm be 100 in each case, and use it as the yardstick with 

 which to measure the same factors on the other farms shown in 

 Table I. 



