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chinery belonging to the farm. In preparing statements of the value 

 of these classes of property, it should be borne in mind that the figures 

 desired are the values on April 15, 1910, and should be determined by 

 carefully estimating the amounts that could be realized from sales 

 under average conditions. 



Farm Expenses. — Under this head inquiry will be made for the 

 total amount expended for farm labor in 1909, exclusive of expendi- 

 tures for house work. An estimate of the value of house rent and 

 board furnished to laborers in addition to wages paid is also desired. 

 Massachusetts farmers paid $7,487,000 for labor in 1899, or a little 

 less than $200 per farm. In view of the marked rise in farm wages 

 during the past ten years, it will be interesting to ascertain whether 

 or not the average farmer is expending more for help than at the time 

 of the last census. 



A third question calls for the amount paid in 1909 for manure and 

 other fertilizers. In 1899, $1,320,600 was expended for this purpose 

 by Massachusetts farmers, — an average of $35 per farm. The aver- 

 age for the United States was only $10 per farm. 



A new question in farm census investigations calls for the amount 

 paid in 1909 for hay, grain and other articles not raised on the farm, 

 but purchased for feed of domestic animals and poultry. This inquiry 

 is of exceptional importance in Massachusetts, where market garden- 

 ing, dairying and poultry raising are so highly developed in the vicinity 

 of the larger cities. Large quantities of feed are known to be pur- 

 chased annually by farmers of the classes mentioned. 



3. Crops and Animal Products. 



Crops. — Four facts are required to be ascertained regarding each 

 principal crop grown on the farm in 1909: the number of acres har- 

 vested; the quantity produced: the value of the product; and the 

 number of acres sown or planted or to be sown or planted for harvest 

 in 1910. The values given should be based upon prices received in 

 the local markets. 



The crops called for on the schedule are as follows : — 



A . — Crops grown exclusively for their grain or seed : This class 

 includes corn, oats, wheat, durum or macaroni wheat, emmer or spelt, 

 barley, buckwheat, rye, Kafir corn and milo maize, rice, clover and 

 other grass seed, flaxseed, peanuts, dry pease, common beans and dry 

 soy beans. 



B. — Crops grown exclusively for hay and forage : In this class are 

 timothy; clover; timothy and clover mixed; alfalfa; millet and 

 Hungarian grasses; other tame or cultivated grasses; wild, salt or 

 prairie grasses; small grains cut green for hay; pease and beans cut 

 green for hay ; and coarse forage crops. 



C. — Crops of sundry classes : Under this head are included pota- 

 toes, sweet potatoes and yams, tobacco, cotton, hemp, broom corn 

 and hops. 



