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TABLE 13. AREA RELATED TO INVESTMENT IN BUILDINGS AND 

 MACHINERY, FOR UNITED STATES, 1909, FROM THE CENSUS 



REPORT 



Acres 



Value of 

 Buildings 

 PER Farm 



Per Cent of 

 Capital in 

 Buildings 



Value 



OF 



Machinery 



Per Cent op 

 Capital in 

 Machinery 



Under 20 . 



20-49 



5C^9. . . 



100-174 . . 



175-499. . 



500-999 . . 

 1000 or over 



$605 



474 



848 



1 182 



1734 

 2174 



3330 



34 

 21 



19 

 14 

 10 



$56 

 76 



156 



241 



390 



639 



1 196 



2-5 



2.8 



3-1 

 2.7 

 2.4 

 2.4 

 1.0 



Relation of size of farm to crop yields. The larger farms pro- 

 duce crops as good as, or better than, those produced on the small 

 farms, as is shown in Table 14. Since the small farms keep more 

 horses and men, the amount of product that they have left over is 



TABLE 14. SIZE OF FARM RELATED TO CROP YIELDS, LIVING- 

 STON COUNTY, NEW YORK 



less per acre than the amount left for city consumption from the 

 larger farms. In addition, there is a waste of human labor and 

 resources in making machinery and buildings that are not given 

 full use on the small places. From every standpoint, the farms 

 that are large enough to keep machinery and horses busy and 

 provide full work for a farmer and his sons are most desirable. 



