December, 1931] Dairy Faeming in Gkafton County 



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The smallest acreage in all crops reported by any farm of the 414 

 was 0.1 of an acre. This was used, for a garden. The farmer had 20 

 cows and bought hay. The largest farm had 178 acres in crops. Over 

 fifty per cent fell between 20 and 50 acres of crops per farm (Table 8). 



Table 7 — Average distribution of land per farm in Grafton County, New Hamp- 

 shire, {.'ilJf farms) and Livingston County, New York, (514) farm-s. 



Average acres 

 per farm. 



Grafton 



Livingston'' 



Per cent of 

 total acres. 



A 



Grafton Livingston 



Crops 52 



Pasture, tillable 6 



Other open pasture 63 



Woods pastured 83 



(Equivalent to open pasture) .... (;26) 

 Timber and woodland, not past- 

 ured 26 



Koads, farmstead, waste land, etc. 3 



Total 233 



56 



27 



4 



(1) 



4 

 9 



166 



100 



100 



* Adapted from, Warren, S. W. : An Economic Stiocty of Agriculture in North- 

 ern Livingston County, N. Y. Unpublished Thesis, p. 46, Cornell Univer- 

 sity Library, Ithaca, N. Y. 



*^'"' This figure includes gardens and idle fields, a somewhat different classifica- 

 tion than for the other group. 



Table 8 — Acres in crops, Jfl't farms. 



Range of Acres in Crops. 



Farms. 



A 



Number. 



Per cent. 



Acres in crops. 



f, 



Total. 



Per cent. 



— 20. , 

 20 — 30. . 

 30—40.. 

 40 — 50. . 

 50 — 60.. 

 60 — 70. . 

 70 — 80.. 

 Over 80 . 



Total 



26 



58 

 79 

 76 

 50 



41 

 28 

 56 



6.28 

 14.01 

 19.08 

 18.36 

 12.08 

 9.90 

 6.76 

 13.53 



343.2 



1484.2 

 2774.2 

 3418.9 

 2683.8 

 2611.7 

 2101.8 

 5610.0 



1.6 

 7.0 

 13.2 

 16.3 

 12.8 

 12.4 

 10.0 

 26.7 



414 



100.00 



21027.8 



100.0 



(Smallest acreage 0.1 



more than 100 acres, 22 farms or 5.31 per cent of all; 

 largest acreage 178.) 



Fifty-six farms had over 80 acres in crops with an average of 100 acres 

 per farm. The average acreage in crops for the whole 414 farms was 

 50.8.* A complete list of all the crops grown in 1929 is given in Tables 

 9 and 10. The most important crops are grouped according to the 

 number of acres in crops per farm. 



* This figure is based on the acres of crops actually cared for during 1929. 

 Tt does not agree with the figure 52 given in Table 7, which is the amount of 

 land usually considered available for cropping. 



