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leave their $125.00 grain harvester standing out in the weathei 

 instead of building a suitable machine shed, and the plow and harrow 

 often receive the same treatment. This condition exists generally 

 throughout the Middle West, and Wisconsin farmers are seemingly 

 as negligent as those of any other state. Reports from 150 members 

 of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association indicate 207 

 machines out of a total of 695 as being housed in suitable sheds. 

 From observations made from traveling over the state, the figures 

 give a fairly good representation of the care which the average farmer 

 gives his farm implements." Twenty-third Annual Report of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wisconsin, p. 285. 



95. DEPRECIATION OF LIVE STOCK 1 

 BY W. J. SPILLMAN' 



The data obtained in a survey of 643 farms in Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania, make it possible to calculate the rate of depreciation on 

 dairy cows, as well as on farm horses. The rate obtained represents 

 approximately the average charge which must be made for deprecia- 

 tion in determining the cost of maintaining a dairy herd. 



TABLE LV 



SHOWING DEPRECIATION OF DAIRY Cows ON 378 FARMS OPERATED BY OWNERS, 

 CHESTER COUNTY 



'Adapted from Bulletin 341, Office of the Secretary, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, pp. 93-96. 



H. M. Dixon and G. A. Billings, joint authors. 



