December, 1931] Dairy Farming ix Grafton County 



Table 36 — Relation of total acres to labor income. 



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in production per cow or by the prices received for milk. One farmer 

 may raise sufficient feed on half as much crop land as his neighbor pos- 

 sesses to produce equal amounts of milk and obtain a similar labor in- 

 come. What one operator takes out of his mowing machine, the other 

 may spend in extra fertilizer. In order to get any consistent effect 

 from this measure of size, certain farms selling milk at other than 

 wholesale prices had to be eliminated because of their influence on 

 prices, and the remaining farms had to be arranged in large groups 

 (Table 37). The farms having an average of 88 acres in crops provided 

 twice as large average labor incomes as the ones that had only 26 

 acres. The influence of more acres of crops is in the direction of larger- 

 incomes. 



Table 37 — Relation of acres in crops to labor income. 



Farms left out on which local selling- affected price of milk. 



Number of Cows 



In a dairy region where 

 the receipts, the number of 

 of size of business (Table 

 average of 36.5 cows made 

 the group having 3.6 cows, 

 cow, better prices for the 

 plished more than twice as 



milk sales represent a large proportion of 

 cows in the herd becomes a good measure 



38). Farms in Grafton County having an 



average labor incomes 14 times as large as 



The operators got better production per 



milk, and, more important, they accom- 



much per man. These are some of the rea- 



