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then, is to encourage and show farmers how to summarize their year's busi- 

 ness in order to see how it pays and what can be done to make it pay 

 better. 



CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY PROJECT 



The first project was started \\nth the Chautauqua County Farm Bureau, 

 September 29, 19 14. The farm bureau manager, Mr. Rogers, had taken 

 twentv sur\-ey records before September 29. Messrs. WiUiams, Miller, 

 and Watrud from the United States Department of Agriculture worked 

 on the project part or all of the time. Ninety-seven records were taken. 

 These were worked out, and the labor incomes computed at the bureau 

 ofhce. 



A few tabulations were made. The farms were divided into four groups, 

 according to the receipts per cow. Farms with good cows made twice 

 as much as those with poor cows. 



The same farms were arranged according to number of acres in crops. 

 This arrangement did not cause the labor incomes to increase as regularly 

 as they did in the grouping by cow receipts. 



The labor income does not increase after the third group. Farmers 

 in the vicinity of Sherman specialize in dairying. 



The average crop sale amounts to S135 per farm, which is about 

 eight per cent of the total income. Increasing the crop acres does not 

 increase the crop sales. As more crops are grown, more cows are kept to 

 consume them. There are seven cows per farm in the first group and 

 twenty in the last. It will not pay some of the farmers about Sherman 

 to keep more cows. It might pay, however, to develop another source 



