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be justified. Land naturally productive and climate good. Adapted to 

 variety of crops. Eotation : potatoes and cabbage on clover sod ; beans ; 

 wheat; clover. Alfalfa on certain fields as long as good. Loading switch on 

 farm. Crop and stock balance maintained and winter work supplied by 

 fatting western lambs in winter. Nearness to Buff"alo markets and the loading 

 switch made this practicable. Lambs made best use of bean roughage. Almost 

 ideal organization and especially good management resulted in very high 

 labor efficiency. 



1913 Eecord. Monroe County, N. Y., Farm 



Labor Income $3,860 



Size of hnsiness. — Seventy-six acres in crops : 5 corn fodder, 1 potatoes, 

 10 oats, 3 barley, 1 peas, 14 wheat, 11 hay, 17 apples, 8 peaches, 1 cherries, 



1 plums, 4 pears (young). Six acres pastured. Three cows, 2 sows. 

 Diversity. — Ninety-five per cent of receipts from crops. Two important 



receipts: apples $5,800, peaches $1,000, wheat $350, plums $280, hogs $238. 

 Eight and four-tenths acres of crops per animal unit. 



Production. — Crop yields: oats 50, barley 55, wheat 29, hay 2.4, apples 

 117, peacheg, 3% T., cherries 0, plums 14 T. 



Labor. — One year man, one 7 months, day help 250=^3.4 men. Twenty- 

 two acres of crops per man. Fifteen acres of crops per horse — 5 horses. 



Notes. — Located within 3 miles of Lake Ontario. Season and soil best in 

 state for apples. Land value about $250. One mile to cold storage and 

 shipping point. Abundance of help in fruit harvest. Tillable land used for 

 cow pasture. Hogs kept on orchard refuse and skim milk principally. Gen- 

 eral crops furnished horse and cow feed and helped in labor distribution. 

 Good diversity among fruits. Pruning, spraying, manure hauling and plow- 

 ing Avhen possible provided winter work for the regular force. Cover crops 

 and fertilizer supplemented farm manure in orchard. A dairy would be 

 decidedly out of place. Winter feeding of lambs or other stock would have 

 been impractical because there was no roughage to spare. If more land were 

 to be secured the same system would probably pay best on it. 



1914 Record. Genesee County, N. Y., Farm 



Labor Income $3,919 



Size of business. — One hundred and ninety-five acres of crops: 5 corn, 

 7 silage, 10 potatoes, 32 beans, 2 buckwheat, 8 peas, 13 oats and barley, 38 

 wheat, 31 hay, 9 alfalfa, 40 apples. Forty-five acres pastured. Thirteen cows, 



2 young cattle, 50 ewes. 



Diversity. — Eighty per cent receipts from crops. Six important receipts: 

 apples $3,700, beans $1,216, wheat $1,100, milk $960, lambs and wool $488, 

 hay $448. Four and nine-tenths acres of crops per animal unit. 



Production. — Crop yields: corn 45, silage 14, hay 2, potatoes 100, beans 20, 

 oats and barley 36, wheat 32, alfalfa 3, apples 102. Seventy-four dollars 

 receipts per cow. Six dollars and fifty cents receipts per ewe. 



Labor. — Two year men, day help 457 = 4.5 men. Forty-three acres of crops 

 per man. Nine animal units per man. Twenty-eight acres of crops per horse 

 — • 7 horses. 



