Table 1 



Showing how the Supervisors of Agriculture rate 369 out of the 400 farms 

 studied. 



Rating Number of farms Per cent 



Good 196 53.1 



Fair 150 40.7 



Poor 23 6.2 



Table 2 

 SIZE OF FARMS IN PENNSYLVANIA 



wheat ranch of ten times that area. Table 2 shows that most of 

 the farms studied range in size between 50 and 175 acres, and that 

 the median size is 87.8 acres. The same table also shows how these 

 farms compare in size with all of the farms of the state as reported 

 in the L . S. Census Report of 1910. It will be noted that there are 

 proportionately less very small farms, and fewer very large farms 

 in the group studied than exist in the state at large. In other 

 words, the group selected is more central in its tendency as regards 

 size, than the group embracing all of the farms of the state. Figure 

 2 shows the same facts graphically. The object in presenting the 

 facts regarding the size of the farms is that it may favor accurate 

 description in this report of the farms studied. 



Type of Agriculture. The major part 70.1 per cent to be ex- 

 art of the agriculture on the farms considered is general in type. 

 The term "general" means that the income is derived from growing 

 the usual animals and field crops of the region. ly referring to 



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