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merely used to grow feed for cows to get more manure 

 to raise more feed for cows, there is no cash coming in 

 except from the milk. The milk must then pay for the 

 manure. Placing a high value on manure does not then 

 help the situation. But if part of the manure is used to 

 grow profitable cash crops, the system may pay well. 



93. Relation of diversified farming to profits on 

 wholesale market milk farms. The average results 

 for 166 dairy farms in New York are shown in Tables 

 20 and 21. They are the farms in ten townships having 

 six or more cows and selling milk at wholesale. Most 

 cf those in Tompkins County shipped to New York, and 

 most of those in Livingston County shipped to Rochester. 



For Tompkins County, the farmers who. sold practically 



TABLE 20. DIVERSIFIED FARMING RELATED TO PROF-ITS ON 

 FARMS SELLING WHOLESALE MARKET MILK TOMPKINS 

 COUNTY, NEW YoRK 1 



1 New York, Cornell Bulletin 295, p. 507. 



2 An animal unit means the approximate number of cows that the 

 stock is equal to in food required and manure produced. One cow, horse, 

 or bull are counted as one. Seven sheep, 5 hogs, or 100 hens are counted 

 as one animal unit. Two colts, heifers, calves, 14 lambs, 10 pigs, are 

 counted as one animal unit. 



3 Total labor includes the value of all paid and unpaid labor, the 

 farmer's labor being estimated at $326. 



