SOME SUCCESSFUL FARMS 543 



Corn, potatoes, and beans are grown on sod. The beans 

 are usually followed by wheat. Corn and potatoes are 

 followed by oats or barley, and these by wheat. Grass 

 is always seeded with wheat and is usually left down one 

 year. ' 



RECEIPTS 



Potatoes, 1100 bushels $744 



Beans, 286 bushels 629 



Wheat, 1400 bushels 1400 



Timothy, 60 tons 1320 



Straw, 5 tons 50 



23 steers 990 



3 horses 355 



150 lambs 667 



29 hogs and pigs 216 



Eggs $2, breeding fees $8, team labor $30 40 



Increase of investment . 140 



$6551 

 EXPENSES 



Labor paid $310, value of board furnished $152, value of 



unpaid labor of son $312 $774 



Machinery $167, and repairs $65 232 



Fences $40, feed grinding $10 50 



Horseshoeing $60, breeding fees $8 68 



Seeds 148 



Fertilizer 109 



Paris green $10, twine $25, threshing $100, fuel $10 . . 145 



Insurance $40, taxes $152 192 



Steers $672, horse $91, lambs $415 1178 



S2SM> 

 SUMMARY 



Average capital $35,948 



Receipts 6,551 



Expenses 2,896 



Income from capital and operator's labor 3,655 



Interest on capital at 5% 1,797 



Labor income 1,858 



The success of this farm is primarily due to the combina- 

 tion of good soil, large area of crops grown, and such a 

 diversity of crops that they can be grown with a small 

 labor cost. This was a very dry year, the poorest year 



