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the receipts came from crops and there were two important 

 products, butter amounting to $1,205 and hay $750. The 

 diversity was probably three times as good as the average. The 

 work rate, however, was low. Only 33 acres were fanned per 

 man and 6 animal units cared for per man. There were only 

 121 units of productive work per man. This was due mostly to 

 the small size of business. Two factors, size and work rate, were 

 low, but production and diversity were very good, — at least good 

 enough to more than offset the others and give a labor income of 

 $1,006. 



The only strong factor in the business of Farm 536 was its 

 size. There were 108 acres of crops and 28 cows. It was a 

 business two-thirds larger than the average. Production was a 

 lijttle under average with both crops and cattle. Diversity was just 

 average and the work rate was not quite average. With all the 

 factors except size only average or a little below, but with size 

 two-thirds greater than the average, the farmer made two-thirds 

 more than the average labor income, or $1,022. 



Every factor in the business of Farm 626 exceeded the average 

 The business was more than twice as large. There were 91 crop 

 acres and 35 cows. Some of the cows were registered. The busi- 

 ness provided 917 work units. Crop yields were 28 per cent above 

 the average, and the receipts per cattle unit were good. Each man 

 could have handled easily 10 to 15 more acres of crops. The work 

 rate was 15 per cent above the average. If there had been 30 to 

 50 nlore acres of crops in the business, probably there would have 

 been some crop sales. As it was there were no crop sales. Milk 

 was the largest sale, amounting to $3,535, but it was not the only 

 one. There was an income of $500 from cattle, so the diversity 

 was a little better than average. With size well above the average, 

 and all the other factors above, the resulting labor income was 

 $1,532. 



A FARM BUSINESS COMPARED WITH A BOX 



So simple is the relation of profits to organization that we may 

 compare a farm business in a general way to a box. The size of 

 the farm business is comparable to the length of the box, the 

 diversity is comparable to the breadth and the production to the 

 depth. The capacity of a box depends upon its length, breadth 



