RURAL TEXTBOOK SERIES Continued 



Farm Management 



By G. F. WARREN, Ph.D., Professor of Farm Management, 

 New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, 



Illustrated. Cloth, izmo, xx +592 pages, $f./rj net 



" Farm Management is the study of the business principles in farming. 

 It may be defined as the science of the organization and management of a 

 farm enterprise for the purpose of securing the greatest continuous profit. 



" Successful farming requires good judgment in choosing a farm and in 

 deciding on a type of farming. It demands clear business organization 

 and management for the efficient use of capital, labor, horses, and ma- 

 chinery. It requires good judgment in buying and selling. 



" The change from cheap land, hand tools, and farming to raise one's 

 own food and clothing, to farming as a commercial undertaking has come 

 upon us so suddenly that business principles are not always well under- 

 stood by farmers. Nor do those who understand the application of such 

 principles to city conditions often know how to apply them on the farm. 



" Long ages of experience and a generation of scientific research have 

 resulted in a fund of popular knowledge on how to raise crops and animals. 

 But there is less background of tradition concerning business methods on 

 the farm, and colleges have given little attention to this kind of problem. 

 The success of the individual farmer is as much dependent on the applica- 

 tion of business principles as it is on crop yields and production of animals. 



" The best way to find out what methods of farm organization and man- 

 agement are most successful is to study the methods now used and the 

 profits secured on large numbers of farms, and determine how the more 

 successful ones differ from the less successful, and find to which of the 

 differences the success is due. After such principles are found, they need 

 to be tested by use in reorganizing farms. 



" The conclusions in this book are based on investigations of the kind 

 given above, and on cost accounts, census data, travel and study in differ- 

 ent parts of the United States and experience in farming. It is hoped that 

 the conclusions may be of use to farmers and students." Preface. 



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