[Cir. 128— A] 



SOME PROFITABLE AND UNPROFITABLE FARMS IN NEW 



HAMPSHIRE/ 



By Fhed E. Robertson, Scientific Assistant, and Lawrence G. Dodge, Agriculturist, 



Office of Farm Management. 



INTRODUCTION. 



A detailed study of the financial results of farming was made in 

 two typical dairying sections of Xew Hampshire. Of these localities 

 one was in the Suncook Valley, comprising the greater portion of 

 six towns, 2 Barnstead in Belknap County, and Pittsfield, Cliichester, 

 Epsom, Pembroke, and part of Loudon, in Merrimack County, and 

 the other along the Connecticut River, in Grafton County, including 

 Haverhill, Piermont, and part of Bath. 



Each real farm in those areas was visited by a representative of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture and the New Hamp- 

 sliire College Agricultural Experiment Station. Statements of the 

 total investment, the receipts, expenditures, and other details of the 

 year's business were obtained from the farmers. These statements 

 were from the farmers' own careful estimates or, wherever possible, 

 their actual records. 



Similar investigations were made in four towns in southern New 

 Hampshire in 1909.^ In the region then covered there was Kttle of 

 the typical dairy farming of New England. The present areas were 

 selected to show something of the financial results of dairying under 

 average conditions, both in the production of market milk and of 

 cream for the creameries. The region in the Suncook Valley is pri- 

 marily a market-milk region, while that in Grafton County, though 

 some milk is shipped, is more especially a creamery region. 



In the two regions 428 farms in all were recorded and the financial 

 results tabulated. In the study of these farms there appeared a wide 

 variation in profitableness among them. To bring out the relation 



1 Issued May 24, 1913. 



The survey in which the material for this circular was obtained was made cooperatively by the New 

 Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station and the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



2 The term "town" as here used is synonjTnous with the word "township" as used in most parts of 

 the cotintry. 



3 The results of these investigations have been published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 in Circular 75 of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



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