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Table \. — Comparison of Cross Cash Income on 272 Farms Surveyed with Gross 



Cash Income for the State as Reported by the Agricultural 



Marketing Service, 1940. 



Cash Income Percent of 



Dollars Total Income 



Source of Income 



272 State 272 State 



Farms Total Farms Total 



Dairy products ' 560,787 24,302.000 37.7 41.1 



Cows and calves sold 57,294 2,643,000 3,9 4.5 



Eggs sold 270,506 9,141,000 18.2 15.5 



Other poultry products 144,647 5,089,000 9.7 8.6 



Turkeys, wool, hogs, sheep, and other 



livestock *3,392,000 (a) 



Tobacco 99,042 2,802,000 6.6 4.7 



Potatoes 14,893 1,813,000 1.0 3.1 



Truck crops 220,628 9,723,000 14.8 16.5 



Apples 103,183 2,213,000 6.9 3.8 



Peaches 455 83,000 ** 0.1 



Pears 552 20,000 ** ** 



Strawberries 4,922 634 000 0.3 1.1 



Other fruit *4.271.000 (b) 



Other receipts *47,796 (c) *10,207,000 (c) 



Government payments 13,994 619,000 0.9 1.0 



Outside income *83,708 (d) 



Total 1,622,407 76,952,000 



*Non-comparable items 131,504 17,870,000 



Total comparable items 1,490,903 59,082,000 100.0 100.0 



**Less than 0.05 percent. 



(a) These types of farming not covered in the survey. 



(b) Primarily cranberries. 



(c) For the survey, other receipts were sale of machinery, etc.; for the State, they were primarily 

 greenhouse products. 



(d) No figure given for the State. 



Table 2. — Types of Farming and Number of Farms Surveyed in the Areas 



Chosen for Study. 



Number of Farms by Type of Farming 



Dairy 

 County 



Essex 57 



Berkshire 45 



Plymouth 12 



Worcester 24 



Hampshire 



Total farms 



This study 138 



Census 7,001 



Percent 



This study. . . . 50.7 



Census 38.3 



Poultry 



Vegetable Onions and Fruit 

 Tobacco 



Total 



