THE INCOMES OF 178 NEW YORK FARMS 



It is well to have some of the successes in Eastern Agriculture presented. 

 The tendency has been to emphasize every failure in the East and exploit 

 the successes in the newer regions. There are successes and failures 

 in every State. A few years ago the average of success was probably 

 higher in the West than in New York, but with the recent changes 

 in land values, the opportunities for making money in agriculture are 

 probably fully as good in New York as in any State. 



Fig. 4. — Location of the farms from which figuies were secured. 



The following bulletin includes some of the conclusions from a thesis 

 prepared by M. C. Burritt. It represents an effort to determine what 

 a reasonably large investment in farming may be made to pay. It 

 does not represent average farms because average farms have a much 

 smaller capital. The figures are probably not far from correct for the 

 average of those farms with a capital of $11,000, which is the average 

 of those here given. 



The average receipts on these 178 farms were* $2,829 (Table I) and 

 the average farm expenses (not including household and personal ex- 



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