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Farm 3. 

 Crop acres, 133; good. 



Crop index, 75; poor. (Hay 1.1 T., oats 25 bu.) 

 Receipts per cow (20 cows), $95; excellent. 

 Per cent of receipts from crops, 16; fair. 

 Labor income, $1,661. 



This farmer gets crops only three-fourths as good as his neighbors', 

 but with the large area he should make a good profit from growing them. 

 He sells part, and what he feeds to cows he makes a second profit on because 

 he gets such good returns per cow. 



We should expect him to do very well indeed. His crops are only 

 one-third as good as Numbers 1 and 2, but the larger area more than makes 

 up. If the soil is as good as his neighbors', he might readily bring his labor 

 income to $2000 by raising better crops. 



Farm 4. 

 Crop acres, 110; excellent. 

 Crop index, 142; excellent. 

 Receipts per cow, $96; excellent. 

 Per cent of receipts from crops, 19; excellent. 

 Labor income, $2,239. 



This farm is excellent in every particular. We should expect it to 

 make at least $2000, as it does. About the only difference from Number 3 

 is in crop yield. 



Farm 5. 

 Crop acres, 109; excellent. 

 Crop index, 120; excellent. 

 Receipts per cow (32 cows), $56; poor. 

 Per cent of receipts from crops, 4; poor. 

 Labor income, minus $113. 



This farmer made very good profit on his crops of which he had a good 

 acreage. But he fed these crops to cows that did not pay their feed bill. 

 If he had excellent cows, his labor income would be $1500, but as it is he 

 did not even make interest on his capital. He paid for the privilege of 

 working. 



Farm 6. 



Crop acres, 259; excellent. 



Crop index, 134; excellent. 



Receipts per cow (33 cows), $74; good. 



Per cent of receipts from crops, 53; excellent. 



Labor income, $3,270. 



This is the highest labor income made by any farmer who sold milk 

 at wholesale. With his unusually large area of good crops, he could 

 easily raise his labor income to $4000 by keeping better cows. 



After dne has studied over large numbers of records it becomes possi- 

 ble to tell whether the labor income is poor, good, fair or excellent by 



