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DAIRY FARMING 



farming is the diversity of the business. It usually pays 

 better to have cash crops or other products combined with 

 the dairy. 



DIVERSIFIED AND SPECIALIZED" DAIRY FARMS 



237. Relation of Cash Crops to Profits. As has previously 

 been mentioned (page 229), farmers who combine cash crops 

 or some other product with dairying, usually make more 

 than do those who sell nothing but dairy products. The 

 poorer the cows, or the lower the price of dairy products, 

 the more important it is that crops be sold. But even 

 with extra good returns per cow, those who sell some crops 

 are usually doing better than those who sell no crops, 

 as is shown in Table 44. The results here given are 

 for a typical region in New York. In the corn-belt the 

 most generally profitable type of dairy farming is to raise 

 corn for sale or for hog feed in addition to raising feed 

 for the cows. 



TABLE 44. RELATION OF RECEIPTS PER Cow AND CASH CROPS 

 TO PROFITS ON 585 FARMS WITH Six OR MORE Cows. JEF- 

 FERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK 



Only two farms in this group. 



2 No farms in this group. 



