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BULLETIN 997, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



visited, however, are very similar to those on other farms in the 

 respective areas. 



Table 1. — Location, number, and size of farms. 



Location. 



Number 

 of farms. 



size of 

 farms 

 (acres). 



Average 



number 



of crop 



acres. 



Madison County, Ohio 



Seneca County, Ohio 



Madison County, Indiana 



Montgomery County, Indiana 

 Livingston County, Illinois . . . 

 Knox County, Illinois 



All 



286 



363 

 202 

 218 

 270 

 247 

 256 



258 



276 

 140 

 176 

 205 

 211 



Fig. 1.— Areas in which investigation was made. 



Madison County, Ohio. — The average size of all farms in this 

 county, as determined by the 1920 census of agriculture, is 164 acres. 

 Corn is the principal crop, occupying in 1919 about 46 acres per farm. 

 A considerable part of the corn is cut by hand and husked by hand 

 from the shock. Where this practice is followed no horse labor is 

 used in the corn harvest except for hauling the husked corn from the 

 field to the crib. 



Wheat is the crop next in importance from the standpoint of 

 acreage. There was an average of 28 acres per farm in this crop in 

 1919. Wheat usually follows corn in the rotation. It is sown after 

 the corn is cut, without any preparation of the ground except disking. 

 Oats is usually planted in the same way. Oats occupied an acreage 

 less than half as great as that of wheat in 1919. 



