FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 



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ries, pears, cherries, milo maize, buckwheat, rape, spelt, Egyptian 

 wheat, and broom corn grown, more or less, in small acreages. Pota- 

 toes were found on most of the farms, and so also was sorghum for 

 sirup, practically every farm having a small acreage of these two 

 crops for home use, the amount raised in excess of home require- 

 ments being disposed of on local markets. Double cropping is not 

 practiced to any considerable extent. 



The yields obtained during the year of the survey were normal for 

 a good season. 



PASTURE. 



While the free range still furnishes the greater part of the pasture, 

 increasing attention is being given to pasture on the farm. Pasture 

 on the farm consists of crop land pastured according to the rotation 

 outlined above, and fenced woods and other land not suitable for 

 crops on which pasture grasses have been planted or the growth of 

 the native grasses encouraged. The farm area pastured does not 

 furnish a measure of the pasture utilized by the farms, for the reason 

 that practically every operator to a greater or less degree utilized the 

 pasturage on the range in addition to his farm pasturage. 



CROP PRODUCTION AND YIELDS. 



In Table IV are shown the yields per acre and the production and 

 sales of the more important crops per farm. On the hilly farms a 

 small amount of a number of crops are sold, while on the valley and 

 level-upland farms most of the crop. sales are from corn and wheat. 

 The yields are considerably better on the valley farms. 



Table IV. — Yield per acre and amount and value of sales of crops reported by operators 

 of farms from which records were obtained. 





Rolling and hilly farms (31 farms). 



Valley and level-upland farms 

 (48 farms). 



Crop. 



Yield 

 per 

 acre. 



Total 

 produc- 

 tion per 



farm. 



Sales per farm. 



Yield TotaI 

 t. 1 ^ 1 produc- 



Sales per farm. 





Amount. 



Value. 



acre. 



tionper 

 farm. 



Amount. 



Value. 



Corn for grain bushels. . 



Rye do 



Timothy and clover tons. . 



Sorghum sirup gallons. . 



23 



10 



8 



24 



.6 

 58 



358 

 50 



6 

 51 



8.3 

 32 



22 

 16 



2 



8 



.2 

 13 



$23 



36 



3 



6 



2 



12 



46 



26 



17 



32 

 12 

 17 

 25 



.7 

 94 



667 

 123 

 24 

 128 

 12 

 19 



65 

 87 



8 

 15 



1 

 10 



$89 

 175 

 9 

 11 

 18 

 7 

 24 





















7 



3 



3 





















Total 









171 









333 



















