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BULLETIN 941, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



$1,550 was left, of which $1,159 was the operator's labor income for his year's work, 

 which is a very successful showing under the conditions existing in this area. 



This farm was so organized that the farmer could pay his family labor for the work 

 performed, pay interest on investment, and at the same time be well paid for his 

 own year's work. 



FARM NO. 5. 



DISTRIBUTION OF FARM AREA. 



DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL. 



Crop area acres. . 67 



Woods and waste do 293 



Pasture do — 70 



Rented out do — 10 



Total farm area do 440 



Land and buildings $4, 000 



Live stock 2, 170 



Machinery 643 



Feed and cash 590 



Total capital 7, 403 



ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROPS. 



NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK. 



Crop. 



Corn 



Wheat.... 

 Hay 



Millet hav. 



Alfalfa 



Apples 



Garden 



Peas' 



.bushels. 

 ....do... 



tons. 



....do... 

 ....do... 

 .bushels. 



.bushels. 



Total 

 vield. 



700 

 300 



10 

 4 



13 

 400 



Acres. 



Class. 



Cows 



Heifers 



Calves 



Bull 



Steers 



Horses 



Colts 



Brood sows. 



Hogs 



Poultry 



Begin- 

 ning of 

 year. 



Pur- 

 chased. 



Pro- 

 duced. 



DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS. 



DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSES. 



Source. 



Wheat bushels.. 



Apples do 



Hay tons. . 



Corn bushels. . 



Dairy products 



Cattle 



Colts 



Hogs 



Poultry and eggs 



Total receipts. 



Amount 

 sold. 



225 



400 



2 



200 



Value. 



400 

 40 



350 

 76 



850 

 60 



342 



136 



Hired labor $105 



Family labor 396 



Repairs to machinery 50 



Repairs to buildings and fences 90 



Feed 49 



Seed - 86 



Fertilizer 72 



Other expenses 153 



Depreciation, buildings and machinery 88 



Total expenses . 



2,682 



i Second crop. 



Farm income (difference between receipts and expenses) SI, 593 



5 per cent interest on capital 370 



Labor income 1, 223 



This was perhaps the most successfully operated of all the hilly-upland farms from 

 which records were obtained, and in this connection it is interesting to note that when 

 this operator moved to the farm 20 years ago he bought it from a man who had made 

 a failure of its operation. 



The present operator has taken in more land than was under cultivation when he 

 first bought it and has expended an immense amount of work in picking up and 

 hauling stones off the place. For hay he had 15 acres of meadow, 7 acres of alfalfa, 

 and ?> acres of millet. Two acres of cowpeas were planted in the apple orchard. 

 The other crops consisted of 20 acres of corn and 17 acres of wheat. The live stock 

 consisted of 12 cows, 15 feeding steers, 5 horses, 1 colt, 4 brood sows, and other young 



