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Table 14 shows that crop yields are less important than 

 size of farm or production per cow. The combination of 

 good cows and a large farm gives a better chance than good 

 crops and good cows. 



Table 14. — Comparative Importance of Size, Crop Yields and Pro- 

 dvction per Cow, Jefferson County. 



All farms (670) 



97 farms (best crops, 132 per cent), 

 97 farms (best cows, $84+), 

 97 farms (largest, 224+ acres), 

 23 farms (best crops and cows), . 

 11 farms (best cows and size), 



Per Cent 

 making Over 

 $1,000 Labor 



Income. 



22 

 24 

 41 

 43 

 39 

 73 



As has been previously stated, there seems to be little re- 

 lation between any of these factors. If a farmer is good in 

 one respect it does not tell anything about the other points. 



Balanced Fakms. 



Evidently a farmer who is as good as the average in every 

 particular is very far from an average man. He is a very 

 unusual man. In Jefferson County, out of 670 farmers, 

 only 32 were as good as the average in each of the four 

 respects. The average labor income of this region was $609, 

 but the farmers who were as good as the average in size (143 

 acres or more), crop yields, receipts per cow ($59 or more) 

 and in diversity (20 per cent or more from crops) made an 

 average of $1,491, and only 6 of them failed to make as 

 much as $1,000. 



As a standard for dairy farms, we may take the average 

 of all farmers in three regions who sold market milk and 

 who made labor incomes of $2,000 or more. Table 15 gives 

 these averages. 



