284 DAIRY FARMING 



Efficiency in use of labor 

 Crop acres per man 47 

 Crop acres per horse 13 

 Work units per man 298 

 Work units per horse 58 



Fertility 



Acres of crops, including rotated pasture per animal unit 3.6 



The farm represents a good-sized business. It provides full 

 work for two men (one besides the owner) and has enough crops 

 to justify the use of four-horse teams and good machinery. 



The crop yields are excellent. The returns per cow are 

 very good for milk sold to a creamery. The $74 per cow 

 represents a production of 225 pounds of butter-fat per cow 

 in addition to new milk for home use and for calves. The 

 number of pigs per sow is good. 



The farm has three important products, milk, cattle, 

 and hogs. The corn raised for hog feed takes the place of 

 the cash crops that are raised by the farm described on page 

 285 . The farmer has for five years used a pure-bred bull and 

 now has ten pure-bred cows, so that cattle are a third im- 

 portant source of income. 



The acres of crops raised per man and work units per man 

 are very good. The efficiency in the use of horses is only 

 fair. It is possible that the farm might pay a little better 

 if fewer horses were kept. 



In short, the farm is a good-sized business, has good crops, 

 good cows, good diversity, and uses man labor efficiently, and 

 the place is carrying enough stock so that there is a good 

 supply of manure. 



The farmer had a common school education. He worked 

 as a hired man five years, then as tenant five years, after 

 which he bought this farm and has been operating it four 

 years. The efficiency factors given above when compared 



