The reorganization suggested in the earliex report was built around a 

 revision in hay-harvesting methods and barn chore work.^" Both of these 

 adjustments would require considerable capital. The major improvement 

 in barn chore work would be the installation of a gutter cleaner. Cropping 

 operations would involve a shift to grass silage and investment in a field 

 forage chopper and associated equipment. There were also suggestions for 

 a general intensification of the livestock and cropping programs through 

 shorter rotations, increased levels of fertilization, and better management of 

 the herd. Through the improvement in quality of roughage, some increase in 

 production of milk would occur. 



Table 23. — Suggested Crop and Livestock Organization of Farm C, 

 a Typical Large New England Dairy Farm 



*A11 land harvested 3 times. 

 fHarvested 1 time. 



The revised cropping and livestock plan outlined in Table 23 was used 

 as a basis for testing alternative patterns of machinery and equipment or- 

 ganization. As with the small and medium-sized farms, only the aspects of 

 the farm business associated with the use of machinery and equipment were 

 analyzed in detail. Estimates were made of the effect of the alternative pat- 

 terns of ownership upon farm costs and additional farm returns. 



Cropping operations showing both crop acres and acres of work are 

 given in Table 24. 



Alternative 1 — Self-owned Equipment 



The crop program and cropping operations on farm C diffex consider- 

 ably from those on farms A and B in that grass silage is substituted for 

 corn silage. This shift reduces the proportion of total acres associated with 

 the work of plowing and harrowing. But it increases the proportion of total 

 acres of work associated with pasture maintenance and with the hay and 



17 I. F. Fellows, G. E. Frick, and S, B. Weeks, op. cit. 



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