Niagara County: Its Agriculture and Its Farm Bureau 2091 



Although Niagara County excels in fruit production, it is seen from 

 table 5 that the grain yields compare favorably with the average for New 

 York State; in some of these this county is above the average, in others 

 below. f. 



Farm management 



During the late fall of 1914, in cooperation with the United States 

 Department of Agriculture and the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture, a survey was made of eighty-seven farms in the township of Newfane, 

 typical of the intensive fruit-growing section of the county. In this, sur- 

 vey no selection of farms was made, but every farm on the roads traveled 

 by the surveyors was visited, and statistics relating to the year of 19 13 

 were gathered. This included eighty-seven farms, ranging from ten to one 

 hundred and seventy acres in area. For this section, yields and prices 

 in 1 9 13 were more nearly normal than in either 1912 or 1914. From the 

 information gathered, some important facts have been shown regarding 

 the profits of farming in the fruit section of Niagara County. 



The average farm area of these eighty-seven farms was seventy-three 

 acres, and the average orchard area was thirty acres per farm, which is 

 a little less than half the total farm area. However, it was shown that 

 the receipts from fruit were 80 per cent of all receipts. 



A farmer's labor income is the amount he receives for his own labor. 

 It is found by subtracting from the gross farm receipts for a year the 

 total farm expense, which includes all the ordinary running expenses of the 

 farm, such as labor, board of hired help, repairs, supplies purchased, 

 taxes, insurance, depreciation, and the like, together with interest on the 

 capital invested, figured at 5 per cent. 



