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boro are mostly upland explains their income from apples. Milford 

 has an unusually large number of poultry men as shown by the 

 amount received from the sale of eggs in that town. 



By outside labor is meant receipts from hauling or any other out- 

 side work performed at odd times. There seems to be some relation 

 between the proportion of outside work which a farmer does and his 

 profits. In other words, it would appear that farmers who are not 

 making enough money at farming gradually let their farm business 

 go and take up teaming, thus changing from farmers to laborers. 

 The large percentage of total receipts coming from stock and stock 

 products shows that Hve stock is the basis of the agriculture in this 

 region. 



Table V indicates the expenditures in connection with the man- 

 agement of these farms. 



Table V.— Average distribution of expenses on 266 farms, by towns. 



The expenses for labor include only the paid labor and the board 

 of laborers. The very large decrease in the value of farms in the town 

 of Lyndeboro is due 

 to the large sales of 

 lumber in that town, 

 thus bringing down 

 the inventoried farm 

 value for the second 

 year. A'^ery often 

 one hears a farmer 

 say that he pays out 

 everything for fertil- 

 izer, but tliis expense 

 is comparatively in- 

 significant if com- 

 pared with the amount paid out for western grain. The exceedingly 

 large expenditure for this item is partly explained by the charts shown 

 in figures 2 and 3. On the other hand, figure 3 shows that the quan- 

 tity of hay and forage produced in recent years has, on the whole, 

 increased. 



75551°— Cir. 75—11 2 



Fig. 2.— Diagram showing the total production of hay and forage in 

 New Hampshire from 1850 to 1900. (U. S. Census.) 



