4 BULLETIN 633, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The yield of wheat for the year of the survey was somewhat above 

 the normal, being 16 bushels as compared with Barry County yields 

 of 13, 10, and 12 bushels at the last three censuses and Lawrence 

 County yields of 14, 12, and 14 bushels. This higher yield of wheat 

 is believed to be due to a recent marked increase in the use of com- 

 mercial fertilizers rather than to climatic conditions for the year. 



The yield of hay was about half a ton per acre. This is a little less 

 than half the normal yield according to the census figures. But the 

 minor place occupied by hay crops in the agriculture of this locality 

 renders this low yield of hay relatively unimportant. 



The average yield of strawberries the year of the farm survey was 

 74 crates per acre, as compared with Barry County yields of 62 and 

 50 crates for the last two census years, and Lawrence County yields 

 of 90 and 56 crates. Considering the marked variability in the 

 yields of this crop, the yield for the year of the survey may be con- 

 sidered as practically normal. 



FARMS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO TYPE OF FARMING. 



The 244 farms included in this study may be divided into five 

 groups according to type of farming carried on, though in most 

 cases the line of division between the various types is more or less 

 arbitrary. One hundred and sixteen of them may be classed as grain 

 and live-stock farms. They consist of farms on which the principal 

 income is from grain, in nearly all cases wheat, with more than 10 per 

 cent of the total income from some one type of live stock, usually 

 cattle or hogs. 



On 66 of the farms grain (wheat in most cases, corn in a few 

 others) constituted the only source of income exceeding 10 per cent 

 of the total receipts. These are classed as grain farms. Forty-one are 

 classed as grain and fruit farms. They include farms on which both 

 grain and fruit are important sources of income, with no other income 

 from any one source exceeding 10 per cent of the total. 



Seventeen of the farms are classed as fruit farms. The average in- 

 come from fruit on these farms is about 60 per cent of the total. 

 About half of these fruit farms had 10 per cent or more of their in- 

 come from cattle. 



There were four farms which made the dairy business an impor- 

 tant feature. On two of them dairying was the only important source 

 of income ; on the other two grain was about as important as dairying, 

 but these four farms were grouped together because they were the 

 only ones on which the dairy business was a principal feature of the 

 farming. Because of the small number of dairy farms they are 

 omitted from most of the tabulations for the reason that averages of 

 only four items have little meaning. 



