taking inventory of the farm values, the methods of 

 farming, the crop schemes, the incomes, the invest- 

 ments, the labor cost, the profit-and-loss. We should 

 know how the conditions and materials of the farms 

 are utilized. 



A farm-management survey considers farms as 

 business units. This would probably best be fol- 

 lowed by a careful study of the general business situ- 

 ation in the region, as respects markets, railroads, 

 taxation, credit, land-tenure, labor-market, and the 

 like. This is the field of rural economics, considering 

 the farmer not in reference to the production of 

 crops on his own farm, but in his business relations to 

 his community and surroundings. 



These foundation registers having been made, 

 the various crops or products of the region may be 

 chosen for detailed study, as the fruit crops, truck 

 crops, flower crops, home gardens, wood-lots, pas- 

 tures, grain crops, new crops, milk and butter 

 production, poultry, sheep, cattle, swine, horses, and 

 the like. All such supplementary studies should take 

 full account of every preceding study and endeavor 

 to determine how far the particular industry is col- 

 ored or shaped by the underlying physical and eco- 

 nomic conditions. Every survey should articulate as 

 far as possible with every collateral survey. 



On this basis many special and interesting 



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