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Table 27 — Conthnnd. 



Man Horse MiscelLineous 



units. units. 



Day-old chicks, per 1000 chicks hatched 

 Stallion fees per fee collected 

 Man for every day worked or $4 — %ii receipts 

 .Man and team for every day worked or $8 — $10 receipts 

 Man, team and machine for every day worked or $10 — $12 re- 

 ceipts 



Cord wood, per cord or $6 — $8 receipts 

 Lumber per thousand or $12 receipts 

 Fulp wood per cord 

 Wood, standing per $20 receipts 

 Boarders, per $10 — $12 receipts 

 Pasturing stock, per $20 receipts 



Truck hauling own milk and others, per $12 receipts, or one- 

 third time on road 



Team hauling own milk and otliers, per $6 receipts, or one- 

 third time on road 

 Gravel sold, no hauling, per $20 receipts 



There is much work about the farm that is not directly productive 

 such as building fences, repairing buildings, caring for work horses, 

 etc., and as such is not included in this measure. Work units have noth- 

 ing to do with yields or production, so that an acre of hay counts one 

 work unit for each cutting regardless of its yield, and one cow counts 

 as 15 work units whether she produced 25 hundredweight of milk or 

 75. A work unit does not measure the actual amount of time that a 

 man works, but rather gives him credit for accomi)lishment in terms of 

 the hours that the average worker would require. If he is credited 

 with more work units at the end of the year than his neighbor, he is 

 more efficient ; he may not have worked longer hours. 



Man ivorh nnils per man is the result obtained by dividing total man 

 work units on the farm by the man equivalent. !_ 



Crop index is a percentage comparison of the crop yields on one farm \ 

 with the average yields of the region or state. In this analysis, tlie i 

 averages for yields on the 414 farms surveyed were used as a base. ! 

 These average yields are given in Tables 9 and 10. As some 85 per cent f 

 of the croi) land is occupied by hay, hay yields are a controlling fac- \ 

 tor in cro]) index. In this study, the crop yields on each farm were i 

 weighted by man work units. Hay represents one work unit and po- i 

 tatoes ten; therefore, an acre of ])otato('s had ton times tlie weight of i^ 

 an acre of hay in determining crop index. I 



Production index. A production index attempts to measure both crop <( 

 and animal production and to express the result in |)er cent of the ' 

 average of the region for that year. All cows, chickens on farms hav- 

 ing 50 birds or more, and sheep on farms having one animal unit or i 

 more of sheei) per farm were included in the index for these farms. ( 

 (^ows were figured on the basis of mill\ production i)er cow, chickens i 

 on eggs i)roduced per bird, and sheej) on net increase i)lus sales of 

 wool. 



