A FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN BROOKS CO., GA. 



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Increasing the amount of productive labor per mule reduces the 

 cost per day of such labor, resulting in a lower cost of production 

 and larger farm profits. This is shown by Table IX, in which the 

 farms are grouped 

 on the basis of the 

 number of days of 

 labor per mule. On 

 the group of farms 

 reporting the least 

 productice labor per 

 mule, or an average 

 of 62 days per year, 

 the cost per day of 

 mule labor * amounted 

 to $1.70, which daily 

 cost decreased regu- 

 larly to 72 cents on 

 the group reporting 

 the most labor, or 172 

 days per mule. The 

 striking relation be- 

 tween increasing days' 

 work per mule and 

 decreasing cost per 

 day of mule labor is 

 shown by the curve in 

 figure 12. 



It may well be asked 

 by what means some 

 of the farms provided so much more employment for the work stock 

 than did others. The data in Table X indicate that the area culti- 

 vated per mule is the most important factor. 



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 111 



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15 100 [25 150 

 DAYS PRODUCTIVE LABOR PER MULE 



Fig. 12. 



-Relation of days of productive labor per mule to 

 the cost per day. 



Table X. — delation of number of acres of crop land per mule to utilization of 

 mule labor and to farm returns (Brooks County, Ga.). 



. Number of acres crop land per 

 mule. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Average 

 acres 

 crop 



land per 

 mule. 



Acres 

 of crop 

 land per 



farm. 



Acres 



of cotton 



per 



mule. 



Days 

 mule 

 labor 

 per 

 mule. 



Cost 

 of cotton 



per 

 pound. 



Index of 

 earnings. 





11 



18 

 21 

 24 

 32 



16 

 22 

 27 

 32 

 42 



48 



81 



113 



144 



233 



5.1 

 7.8 

 7.9 

 9.0 

 9.4 



67 

 89 

 108 

 121 

 139 



$0,095 

 .092 

 .092 

 .0S3 

 .090 



80 



23 to 21.9 



71 



25 to 29.9 



30 to 34.9 



103 

 123 



35 and over 



101 









106 



31 



145 



8.6 



113 



.030 



100 







