354 



FARM MANAGEMENT 



A neighbor of this farmer, who was also a good farmer, 

 had the crops and animals shown in Table 74 : 



TABLE 74. CROPS AND ANIMALS ON A FARM NEAR THE ONE 

 GIVEN IN TABLE 73 



This farmer kept one man by the year. The work units 

 per man were 113 and per horse 55. Men and horses 

 are accomplishing half as much as on the neighbor's farm. 



Of course other work was done on both farms. The 

 work units do not show how hard 'the men worked, but 

 when taken together with crop yields and milk yields they 

 show what was accomplished. A man or horse on the 

 first farm was accomplishing about twice as much as on 

 the second farm. In this case the difference is mostly due 

 to size of farm. 1 



1 See farm No. 1, page 511 and No. 25, page 531. New York, Cornell 

 Bulletin 295. 



A Normal Day's Work in Various Farm Operations, U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Bulletin 3. 



Distribution of Farm Labor, Missouri Research Bulletin No. 6. 



