COST OF FARMING OPERATIONS 



minative. The chief purpose in presenting 

 them is to place before the young farmer 

 an appreciation of some of the problems 

 involved in the production of the chief and 

 basic agricultural commodities. The young 

 farmer's success will be modified by the 

 role which they occupy in his farming sys- 

 tem and by his ability to adjust them to the 

 economic conditions in which he may find 

 himself placed. A thorough understanding 

 of the principle underlying the data sub- 

 mitted will go far toward enabling him to 

 make this adjustment, although none of the 

 illustrations given may have been obtained 

 under conditions identical to his own. 



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