PART-TIME FARMING 113 



almost evenly divided between regular and part-time farming. Although 

 the production in most part-time farming enterprises is intended primarily 

 for family consumption, the proportion of products sold by them amounted 

 to over one-third of the total value of produce offered for sale by local 

 producers. Part-time farming enterprises, therefore, exercised a consid- 

 erable influence on local prices and general marketing conditions of agri- 

 cultural products. 



Table 4. — PARx-TniE farming enterprises classified by value of output. 



\'alue of Output Number Per cent 



Below S50 124 33.9 



S50— 99 89 17.1 



100— 249 137 . 26.^ 



250— 499 79 15.2 



500— 999 57 11.0 



1000 or over 33 6.J^ 



Total 519 100.0 



Table 4 shows the value of the products of all part-time farming enter- 

 prises. Nearly one-half had an output worth less than $100, while a 

 number of operators produced more than $1000 worth, the average value 

 being $287. Classified by occupations of operators (Table 5), the retired 

 men and women had the highest output and business and professional men 

 the lowest; while the output of the largest group, laborers and artisans, 

 was a little in excess of the average for nil enterprises. 



Table 5. — Average value of agricultural output by part-time farmers, 

 classified by occupation. 



Land Values in Farming and Part-Time Farming 



The average value of land was $98 per acre in part-time farming enter- 

 prises as compared with $52 in regular farming. (Table 6.) An analysis 

 of the figures given in the table shows that the higher average was entirely 

 due to a considerable percentage of the area in part-time farming which 

 was valued at $300 and more per acre. All the land in that range of 

 prices derived its value largely from its importance for residential pur- 

 poses, and was owned by a number of part-time farmers in lots ordinarily 

 not larger than a fraction of an acre in size. When this high-priced 

 residential land was eliminated from the total land area, the remaining 

 land in part-time farming proved to have a lower average value than the 



