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irom a study of the above table it will be readily seen that as 

 the size of the flock increases, the amount of labor income increases. 

 The labor income per bird is also seen to increase in the same way, 

 yet with less uniformity. As the flock goes over 1000 birds in size, 

 the increase does not keep on. Probably 1000 birds represents the 

 limit of efficiency in size for a one-man intensive poultry plant. 



Relation of Years Experience on the Farm to Profits and Capital on 150 Poultry 

 Farms. 



The above table brings out two very interesting and valuable 

 points from a management standpoint, viz., that the longer the 

 experience of the operator, the more expert he becomes and the 

 more money he is able to earn from his business. The last colunm 

 shows that the more experience he has, the less danger there is of 

 him making a failure of his business. 



No effort has been made to discuss the above tables in detail, 

 but they should, hoAvever, be carefully studied by the students 

 and discussed in class in order that all the various relationships 

 which exist may be brought out and in order that the method of 

 making correlation studies of this type may become familiar. For a 

 detailed discussion of the comprehensive farm management survey 

 of the 150 poultry farms in New Jersey referred to above, see 

 New Jersey Bulletin No. 329. 



Some Results from a Connecticut Survey. — A series of poultry 

 farm surveys made in Connecticut by Roy Jones and I. G. Davis 

 during the hen year 1915-16, bring out some very interesting re- 

 lationships and a general summary of their work is here presented, 

 for it covers a different type of farm from that in the other surveys. 

 Poultry enterprises which tended more toward the general farm, 

 where considerable of the feed which the birds consume was raised 

 on the place, were surveyed in the Connecticut study: 



