SIZE OF FARM 



reasons, not to mention others, that it be 

 managed in several units more or less dis- 

 tinct from one another. Just what the size 

 of this unit will be no one knows and it will 

 vary with the type of farming, the type of 

 farmer and many other circumstances. For 

 example, a very common unit for a tenant 

 cotton farm is between 20 and 50 acres, both 

 the product and the farmer being a limiting 

 factor. 



Perhaps the most important lesson to be 

 learned from a study of this table is that it 

 is wise for some men to operate a farm of 

 320 acres, others of 160 acres and still others 

 of 80 acres, because each size of farm pre- 

 sents a task suited to different abilities. It 

 would be as futile for one fitted to operate 

 only an So-acre farm to attempt to manage 

 320 acres as it would be unwise for the man 

 capable of conducting 320 acres to confine 

 his attention to 80 acres. Unfortunately 

 while this principle is not difficult to per- 

 ceive and is easily stated, it is practically 

 impossible to make any application of it to 

 an individual case. Only time and the in- 



