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BULLETIN" 648, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTUBE. 



acreages. However, they have an important place in the economy of 

 the farm. 



LIVE STOCK. 



Brooks County has long been known for its live stock, particularly 

 swine. The relative numbers of animal units 1 of the different 

 classes of live stock found are shown in figure 7. Cattle constitute 

 slightly more than half of the animal units, excluding work stock, 

 while hogs make up more than nine-tenths of the remainder. Most 

 of the farms keep a sufficient number of milk cows and poultry to 

 supply the family needs, and in many cases a small surplus for sale 

 on the local market ; but on none of the farms is dairying or poultry 

 raising otherwise important, owing to the limited local market for 

 such products. A number of farms in the county make a practice of 

 feeding cattle, securing some of the feeders from the other farms in 

 this and in adjoining counties, and shipping others in from Florida. 

 Three such farms are included in this survey. 





ANIMAL 









ITEMS 



UNITS 

 PER 





ANIMAL UNITS PER FARM 







FARM 





5 IO 15 



20 



ALL. LIVE. STOCK 

 CATT LE 



2 8.6 

 1 2.2 











swine: 



1 1. 1 









WORK STOCK 



4.4 









poultry' 



.7 



1 







OTHERS 



.2 









Pig. 7. — Number of animal units per farm of different classes of live stock. 



On a Aery few farms colts are grown, but nearly all the work stock 

 is shipped in from other States. Bees are kept on a number of farms, 

 but on only 4 farms studied were they an important source of income. 

 One farm kept sheep and several supported a few goats. 



The number of animal units of cattle carried slightly exceeds 

 those of hogs, but the latter in reality occupy much the more im- 

 portant place in the business of these farms, as is brought out in 

 Table III. 



Table III. — Average value per animal unit of receipts from- cattle, hogs, and 

 poultry (106 farms, Brooks County, Ga.), Receipts include sales, increased 

 inventories, and products consumed in the farm home. 



Item.- 



Sales and increased inventory, per animal unit 



Value of products consumed on farm, per animal unit. 



Total credits per animal unit 



Total credits per hog unit a 



Cattle. 



S9.6S 

 9.73 



Hogs. 



S37. 60 

 11. £0 



Poultry. 



$42.25 

 65.35 



o The equivalent of a 200-pound hog. 



It will be seen that hogs gave returns amounting to two and a half 

 times as much per animal unit as did the cattle, or $49.40 as com- 



1 An animal unit is a mature cow or horse, or as many other animals as consume an 

 equivalent amount of feed. Two colts or young stock, 5 hogs, 10 pigs, 7 sheep, or 100 

 poultry constitute this unit. 



