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kept accounts. This is due to a number of causes: larger acreages were 

 grown; a larger number of the farms were located in the Orleans and 

 Chautauqua areas, where the hours per acre were, on the average, lower; 

 tractors and other labor-saving machines were used to a greater extent; 

 the farms were a selected group of farms, on which the general efficiency 

 might be expected to be better. 



TABLE 73. AVERAGE COST OF PRODUCING AN ACRE OF TOMATOES IN 1920 ON FARMS 



ON WHICH ACCOUNTS WERE KEPT ON THE CROP, AND ON FARMS ON WHICH 



COST FIGURES WERE OBTAINED BY THE SURVEY METHOD 



