SOME PROFITABLE AND UNPEOFITABLE FARMS. 



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and these must also have consumed much of the purchased grain 

 wliich formed a large item among the expenses. Both the total 

 acreage and that tillable are about the average of the better 100 

 farms surveyed. The investment is larger than the average of the 

 100 farms and the labor income is also larger. It would seem that 

 the labor used on tliis farm in connection with the live stock could 

 at the same time have grown more crops to sell. Even with the 

 available tillable acreage this labor might have raised more cash 

 crops by making some slight changes in the rotation. For instance, 

 a larger acreage of potatoes could have been cared for. The owner 

 of farm No. 1 is not keeping more labor, because he is an older man. 

 He is more than 20 years older than the owner of farm No. 2. 



FARM NO. 2. 



Table VIII. — Statement of the business of farm No. 2. 



[Area, 200 acres; 50 tillable.] 

 CROP RECORD, 



Crop, 



Corn 



Potatoes 



Silage corn 



Oats and peas 



Hay 



Clover 



Acreage, 



3 

 6 

 5 

 26 

 5 



Unit of 

 yield. 



Bushels 

 ....do... 

 Tons... 

 ...do... 

 ...do... 

 ...do... 



Yield per 

 acre. 



50 



200 

 15 

 2.4 

 2 

 3.4 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



1 Receipts per cow (milk), $91; value per cow (grade Holstein breed), $75. 

 [Cir. 128] 



