CIKCULAE NO. 132^ BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



Table I. — Labor income of farmers in the United Slates — Continued. 



Expenses. 



Page. 



Item. 



Total. 



Amount 

 per farm. 



373 

 373 

 373 



Labor , 



Fertilizers 



Feed 



Maintenance of buildings (at 5 per cent) i 



Maintenance of implements and machinery (20 per cent). 

 Taxes (0.6 per cent) 



.!651,611,287 

 114,882,541 

 299,839,857 

 310,272,576 

 253,029,956 

 245,948,094 



.?102. 43 

 18.06 

 47.13 

 49. 72 

 39.78 

 38.66 



Total 



Miscellaneous expenses (15 per cent of other expenses) . 



Total expenses 



1,881.584,911 

 282,237,736 



295. 78 

 44.37 



2,163,822,647 



340. 15 



SUMil.iKY. 



Total gross income . 

 Total expenses 



Net farm income ; . . 



Interest on investment (at 5 per cent). 



Labor income 2 



Interest on mortgage (.$1,715 at 6 per cent) 



Available for purchase of live stock and for family living. 



?6, 237, 850, 146 

 2,163.822,647 



4,074,027,499 

 2,049,572,454 



2,024,455,045 



S980. 55 

 340. 15 



640. 40 

 322.18 



318. 22 

 102.90 

 537. 50 



1 4i- per cent in New Jlngland, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin; 5 per cent in Vir- 

 ginia', West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 Ohio, and Indiana; 5§ per cent elsewhere. 



2 Includes unpaid family labor and all the farm furnishes toward the family living except milk and 

 cream. Does not include income from outside sources, and the amount paid for live stock bought must he 

 deducted from this sum. 



The items of income about which no information is avaihxble are 

 the vakie of the milk and cream consumed on the home farm and 

 what the farmer earns for work outside liis farm. In some regions 

 this latter item is important. Thousands of farmers receive a large 

 part of their income from labor done for others at times when they 

 do not have profitable employment on their ow^i farms. In other 

 sections of the country this item is unimportant. 



The item of expenditure about which no information is obtainable 

 is the amount paid for the live stock purchased. This is a very 

 important item m those sections of the country where the fattening 

 of stock is practiced. It is also a considerable sum m dairy regions, 

 but in regions where no live stock except work animals and a few 

 head of miscellaneous stock are kept it is not very important. 



It is probable that the average working life of a horse is from 8 to 

 10 years. The average depreciation on work horses would then be 

 from about 12 per cent to 10 per cent annually. Where work horses 

 are the only animals kept, the expenditures for the purchase of live 

 stock would therefore probaldy not average more than $15 or S20 

 per year per animal. It is impossible to give even a rough estimate 

 of their cost in regions where live stock represent an important farm 

 enterprise. The data j)resented in the accompanying table should 

 be mterpreted ui the light of these omissions. 



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