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Table 15 — llo(js on SI fanna haviiKj at least (in niuivaUnt o/ one hoy 



for six months. 



* Animal units times 5. 



are kept largely for home use or to sell locally. Table 33 records 126 

 of these animals as having been used in the farm house. The returns 

 of $189 per animal unit might be misleading in that they do not rep- 

 resent a wholesale price at which many hogs might be marketed in 

 Boston or elsewhere, but rather the local or home price approaching 

 retail for a very limited number. Quite in contrast to selling cream or 

 making butter, the marketing of whole milk provides no by-products 

 for hogs. So long as a very few hogs are kept for home use, there will 

 be a small local demand for pigs, however, to replenish the supply. 

 The furnishing of these pigs and in turn providing the local pork sup- 

 ply seems to approach the limits of hog production in this region 

 where grain is purchased and by-products are next to nil. 



Sheep 



Thirty-five farms reported sheep. Thirty-three had as much as one- 

 tenth of an animal unit in sheep, and this group averaged 26 head per 

 farm, or nearly four animal units (Table 16). The net increase in these 



Table 16 — Shcci) on 33 farms harhui an rtiiiiralcnt of at least one sheep 



for eUjht months. 



* Animal units times 7. , 



sheep plus wool, hides or any other ]n-oducts sold from them jimoiinted 

 to about $6 a head or $43 per animal unit. Sheep on relatively small 

 farms where there is little opportunity to raise cash crops are certainly 

 of very doubtful economy. Seven sheej) need jiractically as much past- 

 ure and other feed as a dairy cow. The avcrfigc cow in this area pro- 

 duced in milk alone a value of $150. Furthermore, one may increase 

 the cow's production 50 or 100 per cent much more easily than that of 

 the sheep. 



Stable Manure 



In Table 17 are shown the estimated production ami value of manure 

 from all livestock. Stable manure is a valuable by-product of dairying, 



