794 EXPEKIMENT STATION RECORD. 



reputation tliey have made in their business, and (b) 10 of the best farmers 

 that could be found in the State. 



The 10 farms taken at random showed the following averages: Size, 174 

 acres; laud value, $12,885; improvements, $4,041; equipment, $859; live stock, 

 $2,205; cash reserve, $80; total capital, $20,070; total receipts, $2,981; total 

 expenses, $2,448; net profits, $533. The 10 farms chosen for their successful 

 management averaged as follows: Size, 157i acres; land value, $13,396; im- 

 provements, $6,9SG; equipment, $1,162; live stock, $9,493; cash reserve, $595; 

 total capital, $31,632; total receipts, $8,217; total expenses, $5,380; net profits, 



$2,835. 



Farm accounting' and the cost of producing crops, F. "W. Gist (Bien. Rpt. 

 OK-la. Bd. Agr., 2 (1909-10), pp. 189-195).— This article points out the necessity 

 and advantage of business methods in conducting a farm, inasmuch as farm- 

 ing is as much a business as the selling of goods or other occupation which 

 involves the receipt and expenditure of money. Accurate records are consid- 

 ered feasible, and the article discusses a few simple and convenient forms by 

 which the farmer may know at any time what are his liabilities and assets. 



How a city family managed a farm, J. H. Arnold ( U. 8. Dept. Agr., Farm- 

 ers' Bui. 432, pp. 28, figs. 7). — This points out how a family without previous 

 experience or special training, by following systematically the ordinary crop- 

 ping system and methods of tillage, succeeded in solving the problem of making 

 a living, building a home, and educating the children. Among the more im- 

 portant social, economic, and technical farm problems worked out were those 

 dealing with farm labor, the household, the training of children in responsi- 

 bility in management, and the carrying on of farm work in a way to meet the 

 requirements of a normal social life and of cultivated intellectual tastes. 



A diary and a financial record were kept on this farm for 17 years and the 

 data given are based on these records. 



Two institute workers and their farm homes, D. H. Knowlton {Agr. of 

 Maine, 1909, pp. 66-73). — An account of the practical working of two successful 

 farms, showing the kind of crops grown, the acreage, and the yield of each, and 

 demonstrating the practicability of raising live stock in connection with the 

 farm. 



Profi.table farming in southern Wisconsin, R. E. Roberts (Ann. Rpt. Wis. 

 Bel. Agr., 1010, pp. 3'i'i-356). — The author discusses the problem of building up ' 

 and maintaining soil fertility the necessity of conserving farm manures, and 

 the mistake of selling hay and roughage with the idea that it pays better than 

 feeding it out upon the farm. He argues that under conditions where labor is 

 scarce intensive farming should be practiced rather than extensive. The impor- 

 tance of system in every department of farm work is emphasized, showing that 

 the successful farmer of the future must necessarily farm more intelligently. 

 He suggests that a permanent and profitable system of farming may be best 

 developed by keeping enough live stock of a high grade to profitably consume 

 the farm products, yielding a good profit in itself, and at the same time furnish- 

 ing a by-product to build up and maintain the fertility of the land. 



Agriculture (Ann. Rpt. Comr. Agr., Com. and Indus. S. C, 7 (1910), pp. 25- 

 57). — The report gives a detailed account of the development of the agricultural 

 industry in South Carolina for the last decade, referring particularly to 9 of 

 the leading crops of the State, giving comparative tables showing acreage, pro- 

 duction, yield per acre, and value of product; and the acreage, production, 

 value, cost of producing, and net profit of the trucking industry in the Charles- 

 ton district from July, 1909, to July, 1910. 



The average yield in corn for the entire State was increased from 8.9 bu. per 

 acre in 1906 to 18.5 bu. per acre in 1910. The wheat crop in 1907 amounted to 



