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FARM MANAGEMENT 



wages at that time. Rotation of crops combined with 

 stock raising or other specialties distributes the demand 

 for labor over the year, resulting in more constant 

 employment of the labor of the farmer and his family 

 and in a more uniform wage rate for hired labor. The 

 farm manager who can so arrange his system of farming 

 that hired labor will be needed when it can be cheaply 

 employed and dispensed with when in strong demand 

 should have no difficulty in securing a profit from the 

 employment of labor. In determining the profits 

 from the farm, all items of labor cost must be charged 

 against the enterprises for which labor is used. Thus 

 board must be added to f he rate of wages in the neigh- 

 borhood to get the full cost of labor, as the hired laborer 

 usually lives with the family. 



METHOD OF DETERMINING RATE OF WAGES AN HOUR FOR ALL 

 FARM LABOR EXCEPT DAY WAGES 



(From Table in, Bulletin 48, Bureau of Statistics, U. S. Dept. of Agr.) 



Northfield Route, Month of August, 1904 



Northfield Route, Month of December, 1904 



Horse labor as well as man labor should be charged against the 

 enterprise for which it is used. The rate at which it should be charged 



