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in which respect the better group exceeded the poorer by $1,387, or 

 149 per cent per farm. Greater profits do not therefore come from 

 reduced expenses, but from an increased outlay and a much greater 

 increase in receipts. 



The better farmers spent over one-tliird more for hired labor than 

 the poorer, and at the same time only $2 more for the board of laborers. 

 This suggests that the better farmers employed higher priced help 

 though no greater numbers, or employed more by the day or other- 

 wise without providing board. In short, the better group of farms 

 used more labor without a corresponding increase in the amount of 

 board furnished them in the farmers' households. The better farms 

 expended 50 per cent more for seed and nearly twice as much for 

 fertilizers as the poorer. In the largest item of expense — ^feed and 

 gram — the better farmers exceeded the other group by over 54 per 

 cent. The better farmers spent slightly more than twice as much 

 on machmery as the poorer, but very little more on buildings and 

 repairs. That is, the better farmers put money into production, 

 but the expense for upkeep was noticeably much aUke in the two 

 groups. 



The better farmers purchased more hay, though the total hay 

 purchased by either group is trifling. The better farmers expended 

 nearly twice as much in sHo filling and one-fifth more for horse- 

 shoeing. The latter was perhaps necessitated by so much more 

 work away from the farm, which was shown in the distribution of 

 receipts. 



The mOk-hauling cost is the same in both groups, though the 

 quantity of milk sold is much greater on the better farms. It costs 

 just as much to send 50 quarts of milk per day to the railroad station 

 as to send 125 quarts per day. 



The taxes are 6.4 per cent less on the better farms. This tax 

 item again has some relation to the distribution of capital, for the 

 better farms had a smaller investment in real estate, of which the 

 whole is taxable, and a greater one in movable property, of wliich 

 only part is taxed. 



Table V. — Coinparative number and value of the live stock on 200 selected farms and on 

 all the 42Sfai'ms in New Hampshire of which data were obtained. 



Item. 



Average, 



42S 



farms. 



Average number of cows 



Average \'alue per cow 



Sales of dairy products 



Sales of dairy ])roducts per cow 



Average number of liorses 



Average value of horses 



Average total of animal units . . 



12 



847 



$746 



$62.16 



2.7 



$133 



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