Table 2. — Custom Work Hired for Operations on Crops and Land Improvement 

 by 28 Dairy Farmers in Lebanon, Connecticut, 1949 



*By commercial lime company — no time data available. 



flncludes 12 jobs of pond building and wall removal where acreage could not 

 be recorded or estimated. 



In the less intensive dairy community of Ashfield, Mass., a total of 

 $2,688 was paid in 1949 for custom services on 9 operations on 23 com- 

 mercial dairy farms (Table 3). Custom operations were done on 256 acres, 



Table 3. — Custom Work Hired for Operations on Crops and Land Improvement 

 by 23 Dairy Farmers in Ashfield, Massachusetts, 1949 



or 5 percent of the total acreage on which crop- and land-improvement work 

 was performed. The custom work involved 428 job-hours and 639 man-hours 

 of work, which represented about 6 percent of the total man-hours of crop- 

 and land-improvement work performed on these 23 farms. 



In the moderately extensive dairy community of Belmont, N. H., a total 

 of $1,203 was spent on custom services for 9 operations during 1949 on 19 

 commercial dairy farms (Table 4). Work was performed by custom oper- 

 ators on 172 acres, or about 3 percent of the total acreage on which crop- 



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