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farinors us«' a vtTv j^rrat <lottl of puMtiiro in mnnertion wilh the 

 raising of thoir lii>;:s an«l a <'<)rn»>»fMiiHlin^ Hinall«>r aiuouiit of i-om: 

 »»tli<Ms iisr a inuxiiiiiiin «if loni aitd a iiiiiiiintiiii of ' ' i 



pMslurr. and the li;.nin's .>lin\s luj^lu-r ctist-^ nf rnirlv |ii;-. 

 tliero is a inaxitnuiii (if corn and a inininiuin of tlirnc ot. 



Mr. A.NDKHsoN. lias anyWody arrived ut a j(id;;rni>nt a.H to what an 

 idral l)ar<»n lio^ (»u<;hf lo \v«'i^|i. f(»r example ( 



Doctor Ta^iok. I tlinik tlic pi-opic m Denmark have. The 

 economic <juestion with repml t<» that matter in this country in 

 whether or not it |>ays the farmers «>f the Tnited Statos. with the 

 amount of feed thcv liav(> aviuhihlc. to prodiK'e a hacon hoi; of the 

 Danish typ<\ or whether they can not j)ro«luce the hinl typi* of hoj; 

 and sell it for the price they <-an jjet for it and make more money 

 than they could hy attempting; to [)roduce a hacon lui;;. We are 

 hopin*; to j;ct hasic lii;urcs here which will show what the situation 

 is in that re«;ard. 



Studies are being made of tiairy farm management and cost of 

 milk producti<»n on a huge iiuiid»cr <»f farms, altogether l.KM) fm- 

 in theClreat Lakes legion. including New York and the westcnt •' 

 belt; then UiO farms in California and 200 farms in Mississi[)pi 



Mr. Andkr.son. Tliis is somewhat afield, hut is this the item under 

 which farm power studies have been made ^ 



Doctor .T.vviA>i{. This general item of farm management and prac- 

 tice has carried the farm power studies — that is. jointly — witii two 

 other bureaus. 



USE OF TItAi rOKS ON K.\KMS. 



Mr. Ander.so.v. Have you reached any conclusion as to the 

 ec«)nomical use of the farm tractor? 



Doctor T.VVI.OK. The figures for the Corn lielt and for the Wheat 

 Belt show that the actual cost of getting the work d<»ne — the {)low- 

 ing. the pulling of binders, and work of those classes — is somewhat 

 frreater when done by tractor than when done by horses on the 

 oasis of the price of horses and the cost (»f feeding that has obtained 

 in the last two years and the cost of tractors and the cost of oil, 

 kerosene, and gas'>line as thev have obtained in the last two venrs. 

 A comparistm, when made, shows that unless there are economies 

 and advantages in getting the work done more (|uickly and just at 

 the right time in order to counterbalance this extra cost, it would 

 look as though it were better to use horses. 



Mr. Andkksox. Is not the situation, as a practical matter, usually 

 this: A man has about so many horses which he uses, and when he 

 gets a tractor he is not able to reduce his horse power very much i 



Doctor Taylor. I believe that one of the reasons why the tractor 

 has not proved more profitable to many farmers, particularly in the 

 corn belt, is that they need their horses for cultivating their ct)rn and 

 at threshing time and that there are too many horses standing idle 

 when the tractor is at work. We expected, when we went into the 

 wheat belt, that the facts would show up somewhat differently, but 

 there thev have to have their lun-ses at threshing time. and. as a 

 matter of fact, they have not reduced the numbi^r of horses on the 

 farms as much as would seem t<t be necessary to reduce the t«ital <<>st 

 where thev have tractors. The facts seem to indicate that where 

 they have tractors the total farm power cost is greater thaii where 



