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BULLETIN 648, L*. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



as here used not including products consumed on the farm. Hogs 

 furnish the next largest returns, with 15.7 per cent of the total 

 receipts, followed by oats and rye taken together, watermelons, corn, 

 and cattle, these ranging in order from 6.1 per cent to 4.4 per cent 

 of all receipts. . But when the value of the products consumed in the 

 farm home is added to the sales, the order is changed, hogs taking 

 second place- followed by cattle, corn, miscellaneous crops, oats and 

 rye. and watermelons. The miscellaneous crops include in order of 

 importance sweet potatoes, peanuts, Irish potatoes, cabbage, etc. 

 Other and less important sources of receipts or increases of inven- 

 tories of feed and supplies are poultry and eggs, sugar-cane sirup 

 (see fig. 9), cowpea hay, receipts from miscellaneous sources, arid 

 live stock other than cattle, hogs, and poultry. The last named con- 



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RECEIPTS PER. FARM 

 «00 600 800 1000 ' 



1200 



COTTON 



Swine 



cattle and products 



VIS 



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131 

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 1ST 

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CORN 



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51 









H5C£.a«H£OU5 CROPS 



63 



36 



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HEZZD 







OATS anO RyE 



165 



- 



6 i 









WATERMELONS 



155 



6 



56 









feed and Supplies 



Bi 



- 



JO 









POULTRY AND EQGS 



JO 



46 





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Sugar cane and syrup 



40 



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■ 







COWPEA HAY 



46 



- 



" 



■ 







miscellaneous RECPra. 



46 



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1 7 









OTHER LIVE STOCK 



16 



4 



6 



1 



■ ruin RtCCiPTsO CWSu^lo mTt.tfMm*o»t 





Fig. 8. — Sources of farm receipts and products con.sumed in the home. 



sists of sales of honey and a very few colts, sheep, and goats. The 

 miscellaneous receipts come from labor performed off of the farm, 

 sales of wood, lumber and turpentine rights, tolls from gristmills, 

 and rents from farm buildings, balers, and thrashing machines. 



The value of swine products consumed in the farm home was 

 found to equal nearly one-third as much as receipts from sales of 

 such products. In the case of cattle, these two items were of almost 

 identical value (see Table III), while the value of poultry products 

 and of miscellaneous crops used on the farm greatly exceed the sales 

 therefrom. 



The method of measuring the size of any enterprise by direct re- 

 ceipts therefrom does not give the proper weight to the feed and pas- 

 ture crops, the major part of which are consumed by the live stock 

 on the farm. The total value of the crops grown is, for many pur- 

 poses, a better measure, and when this measure is used the corn crop 



