DIVERSIFIED AND SPECIALIZED FARMING 133 

 EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL TYPES OF FARMING 



96. Successful farmers in New York. The Depart- 

 ment of Farm Management of the New York State College 

 of Agriculture has secured records of a year's business 

 on 2743 farms. These are practically all the farms in six- 

 teen townships taken from three counties representing 

 very different conditions, Tompkins, Livingston, and 

 Jefferson. It also has secured records of 293 farms scat- 

 tered about the state, most of which were successful 

 farms. Table 22 shows the products sold on all of the 

 farms that made labor incomes as high as $2500. 



These farms sold from one to six major products, amount- 

 ing to over $500 each, and sold from one to nine minor 

 products. They averaged over 3 major products and 

 over 4 minor products. In addition, nearly all of them 

 raised some feed for farm use. 



On two farms milk was the only product amounting 

 to $500. On four other farms, milk and pure-bred cattle 

 were the only products amounting to $500. One farm 

 had no products so large except milk and profits from 

 retailing milk purchased, and one had no $500 sales 

 except milk and profit on stock dealing. One farm had no 

 $500 sales except eggs and poultry. This makes 9 farms 

 out of 46 that derived their major sales from one class 

 of stock. But milk combined with pure-bred stock is a 

 very different proposition from milk alone. 



In these regions there are hundreds of farmers who sell 

 little but dairy products, and many who sell only one or 

 two kinds of fruit or crops, but only those with diversified 

 farms often make labor incomes of $2500. The few ex- 

 ceptions are usually due to some special business, like 

 pure-bred stock, that has been developed for many years 



