METHODS OF CONDUCTING COST STUDIES. 



11 



Form 26-FM 



U. S. Department of Agriculture i 

 Office of Farm Management, 



Farm of 



^cn^J&tn ttfts ' 



Post Office 



REPORT OF FEEDING LIVE STOCK FOR THE MONTH OF iPcttr£t As>- 19 20 



Fill out this 'blank on the last day of the month or as soon as possible 

 thefeaf ter 



Put down the number of head of each group and age of animals that you owned 

 on the last day of the month. 



Enter the various kinds of feeds used during the month at the head of each 

 column under "Average Daily Feed, " 



Under these feed headings and opposite the namo of the stock, fill in the 

 average daily ration. Give the ration in terms of quantity per head per day 

 except where animals (as beeves, hogs, sheep, and po\u\try) are fed in groups, 

 when the ration may be stated in terms of total quantity of each feed per 

 day for each group. 





Number 

 of -head 

 on hand 

 on last 

 of month 





Average Daily Feed, (povhos />£/? head} 



Kind 

 and age 



of 

 Stock. 



Gkfo\CoUv 



J8/tan 



TtiiCA 



ditagk 



Hay 



Straw 

 (Inc. 

 bed- 

 ding 



Field 

 past- 

 ured 



HORSES : 

 Work, 



s 



JO 



8 









/5 





Driving , 



/ 



8 









^_ 



15-21 



\A'IOdafd 



Other. 



1 











1 



1 



Colts, 



12 



3 



2 









/O 



U-JOdaud 



COWS 

 Milk: ng , 



2 



2 



4- 





i ' j 

 30 \/2-2/dk. \B-/bdwvf4s 



Dry, 



3 







¥*/0<L 



it 



20 



n 1 ! B. 



CATTLE 

 1-2 yrs. 



5 I 









20 | 





B 



0-1 yrs, 



4. j 







£5%a3 









B 



Bull s , 



/ 







.... ±25.. 



JO 





B 



Beef, 



l 





1 

 1 









SHEEP : 



2+ 









1 

 i 







$MmL 



HOGS: 1 

 Breeders j 











| 





■ / 



Pigs | 

 0-6 mos. . j 

















POULTRY 



75 



TlCr CPU 



%a/'^£jk 



zC 













Fig. 4.— Feed report blank. 



It may readily be shown by figures for a 20-year period that many 

 dairymen in almost any given dairy section, from an opportunity cost 

 standpoint (occasionally stressing more or less violently the various 

 assumptions), have lost money practically every year, and the con- 

 clusion may be drawn that dairying as a business is decidedly unprofit- 

 able. It would require but a brief survey of actual conditions in a 

 locality, however, to make clear that the farmers had nevertheless 

 prospered, that homes had been built and improved, fairly adequate 

 standards of living maintained, money placed in the bank, and mort- 

 gages paid off, so that, altogether, one might say that dairying was a 

 fairly prosperous business. From an efficiency standpoint, that is, 



