288 



FARM MANAGEMENT 



conditions the farms of 20 to 100 acres are too small for 

 farming with horses and machinery, and appear to be too 

 large for greenhouses, homes of town workers, and others 

 who make up the increase in places of under 20 acres. 



TABLE 57. INCREASES AND DECREASES IN NUMBERS OF FARMS 



-f + indicates sizes showing most rapid rates of increase. 



In regions where truck growing or cotton predominates, 

 farms of less than 100 acres are increasing most rapidly. 



Farms of over 500 acres are decreasing in number in 

 nearly all the states except in arid regions and in regions 

 where much of the land is kept in woods or pasture. 

 These results agree with all the previous discussion of size 

 of farm. 



