CHAPTER 4 

 INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE FARMING 



SOME crops require much more work than others, and 

 when successful bring high returns for the area grown. 

 Greenhouse vegetables and fruits are typical examples. 

 Farming with such crops is called intensive farming. 



There are also intensive and extensive methods with 

 any product. One may strive for very high production 

 at the cost of much extra time and money, or may be 

 contented with smaller production at less cost. 



WAYS OF MEASURING PROFITS 



98. Ways of measuring profit. Perhaps more mis- 

 takes are made by using inaccurate ways of counting 

 profit than by any other means. High-class agricultural 

 papers have quoted the total value of ail the descendants 

 of a ewe to show that sheep raising pays. 



Nearly all agricultural colleges call the difference be- 

 tween the value of the milk and the value of the feed of 

 dairy cows, profit. The feed is usually about half th? 

 cost. With very extensive methods of dairying in Minne- 

 sota, the average costs for six years on many farms were, 

 feed per cow $23.13 ; other costs $28.61. 1 With intensive 

 methods of dairying, and higher priced feea, in Connecticut, 

 the average costs per cow for five years were $84 for feed 



1 Minnesota, Bulletin 124, p. 108. 

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