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In Table I the wages per day are figured from the labor income on 

 a basis of 313 days. Many hired men on farms receive $30 a month, 

 which averages SI. 15 for each working day, together with room and 

 board. The average farmer in these four towns receives $1.07 per 

 day, his house rent, and what the farm produces toward his own 

 living. It must be remembered, however, that if the farmer owns 

 his farm, thus having no interest to pay, he will have the amount of 

 this interest in addition to use for living expenses. Aside from the 

 266 farms from which complete records were obtained there were in 

 the four townships 156 other farms, which have been divided into the 

 four following classes: 



(1) There were 28 vacant farms, a few of which were partly woid<;ed 

 by neighbors, but others were entirely abandoned agriculturally. 



(2) There were 62 farms on which persons were living but doing 

 practically no farm work. Most of those in this class had a garden, 

 kept one horse and a cow, and perhaps had a small tillable field from 

 which they cut hay enough for the horse and the cow. 



(3) There were 41 farms the owners of which worked the greater 

 part of all of the year at other than farm work. Many teamsters are 

 in this class. A few of them did some farming, but the greater part 

 of their income was from sources not connected with farming 

 operations. 



(4) There were 25 farmers who were doing some real farm work, 

 but from whom the records received were not complete enough to be 

 used in the tabulations. Four of this number were on rented farms, 

 and nearly all of the others had moved to the farm within a year, so 

 that a complete yearly record was not available. 



The average size of these 156 farms is about 80 acres, with a very 

 small percentage of tillable land. 



Table II. — Average distribution of investment of capital on 266 farms, by towns. 



Table II shows that the distribution of capital is very uniform in 

 the towns. The average farmer has practically three-fourths of his 

 capital in real estate, including permanent improvements, and one- 

 fourth in equipment. The amount that each farmer has in each 



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