December, 1931] Daiey Fakming in Grafton County 



Table 41 — Relation of total receipts to lahor income. 



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* Does not agree with Table 30, because of adjustment of increases and de- 

 creases in value of livestock, etc. 



of COWS, work units per man changed from 151 to 329. One of the big- 

 gest advantages of a large sized farm business is in increasing the 

 amount of productive labor that can be accomplished by each man, 

 but hiring more men does not in itself contribute to that end. 



Table 42 — Relation of num'ber of men per farm to lahor income. 



By first sorting the farms into groups that represent about the same 

 amount of work done per man, the effect of having more men under 

 different conditions of efficiency may be illustrated. When the farm 

 organization was such that men accomplished less than 200 work units 

 per man, a hired man Avas a losing proposition (Table 43). But when 

 men were able to accomplish a medium or good allotment of work, to 

 hire men was profitable. 



