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RURAL KCONOMICS 



Comparison between Farms in the County oj Iowa. 



Farm 

 A 



Average I Averse 

 of I of 



j 13 best farms! 62 fartas 



Farmer's labour income .9 i 231 $ 1,050 1 $ 145 



Size of farm : 



Total area , "... 282 acresj 188 acresj 171 acres 



Cultivated area 



I<ivestock units 



Total receipts 



Quality of Business : 



yvestock: Returns on Sioo of feeds con- 

 sumed 



234 i 144 125 



18 [24 I 21 



•SS 393 S3 211 ' S2430 



Crop yields : 



Maize bushels per acre 



Oats '. » » » 



Hay tons 



Efficiency of labour : 



Crop acres per man 



Crop acres per horse 



Diversity of business : 



Principal rectipts: 



Maize 



Oats 



Pig breeding 



Cattle breeding 



8102 



S 130 



$119 



Farm 

 B 



$72 



100 acres 



70 



12 

 Si 597 



$ l6y 



of agriculture well trained by a farm management demonstrator speedily 

 become capable of rapidly ascertaining the reward of the farmer's labour, 

 and making the comparative examination of organisation of different farms. 

 This special competency of the persons who are at the heads of local agri 

 cultural interests in this branch of rttral economics forms the first direct 

 object towards which the organisation of this Federal Bureau tends. 



8) Many farmers easily succeed in computing themselves the reward 

 of their labour, and anal3^sing their farm, under the guidance of the local 

 farm Bureau, and this is the final object aimed at by the central Govern- 

 ment in estabhshing this Institution. 



g) The Farm Economics Improvement Bureau is furthermore highly 

 useful to the county agricultural agents and these whose duty it is to watch 

 over local interests, as it affords them the means to getting a better know- 

 ledge of the real agricultural conditions of their region, and the problems 



