10 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1251-1275 



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 Depaktment Bulletin No. 1271. — A Study of Farm Organization 

 in Southwestern Minnesota: 



Description and history of agriculture of the area 2 



Purpose of historical study 4 



Settlement and agricultural development 5 



Changes in acreages of the important crops 6 



Changes in the numbers and kinds of livestock 8 



Study of present-day agriculture in Cottonwood and Jackson 



Counties 11 



Unit requirements of labor and materials for crops 13 



Seed-bed preparation 14 



Corn 17 



Oats 24 



Barley 29 



Rye 32 



Flax 35 



Tame hay 36 



Wildhav 39 



Alfalfa. I 41 



Use of unit requirement and labor distribution data in planning 



a cropping system 44 



Unit requirements of labor and materials for livestock 45 



Work horses 46 



Colts 48 



Dairy cows 50 



Young dairy cattle 53 



Mixed cattle 55 



Hogs 58 



Sheep 61 



Poultry 63 



Miscellaneous labor requirements and their relation to the crop and 



and livestock labor 66 



Manure hauling 66 



Miscellaneous crop labor 67 



Miscellaneous livestock labor 67 



Maintenance labor 67 



The place of the crop, livestock, and miscellaneous labor in the 



labor program of the farm 70 



Day-to-day management of labor 75 



Exchange labor 78 



The principles of the choice and adjustment of crop and livestock 



enterprises 79 



Factors affecting choice and adjustment of enterprises 79 



General plan of application of the principles of choice and 



adjustment of enterprises 82 



Summary 99 



Department Bulletin No. 1272. — Values of Various New Feeds for 

 Dairy Cows: 



Plan of the experimental work 1 



Fish meal compared with cottonseed meal 2 



Peanut feed compared with cottonseed meal 3 



Potato meal compared with corn meal 5 



Velvet-bean meal compared with cottonseed meal 6 



Sweet-potato meal compared with corn meal 7 



Potato silage compared with corn silage 7 



Apple-pectin pulp compared with beet pulp 8 



Hy drolyzed sawdust compared with corn meal 9 



Cane molasses as a supplementary feed 12 



Summary 14 



