UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



l| BULLETIN No. 1070 f 



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Washington, D. C. July, 1922 



FARM MANAGEMENT IN CATAWBA COUNTY, 

 NORTH CAROLINA. 



By J. M. John sox. Agriculturist, and E. D. Strait, Assistant Farm Economist, 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in cooperation uith North Carolina State Board 

 of Agriculture. 



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Page. 



Summary of results 1 



General description of area 3 



Type of fanning and analysis of farm business 5 

 Crop rotations 17 



This study is based on a farm business analysis survey of 297 farms, 

 for the year 1912 and of 304 farms for the year 1918 in Catawba 

 County, N. C, and on census reports for that county from 1850 to 

 1920, inclusive. (Table 1.) The facts brought out, though strictly 

 applicable only to the area surveyed, should offer valuable sug- 

 gestions to all farmers throughout the lower Piedmont region. 



The objects of this study were: 



1. To ascertain the type of farming followed and the profits 

 realized in a long-established agricultural community of the southern 

 Piedmont country. 



2. To determine the importance of such factors as the size and 

 the quality of the farm business as they affect the economic organ- 

 ization of farms. 



'.',. To bring out the farm practices that enable some farmers to 

 excel other-, in single enterprises or in the entire farm organization. 



1. To note changes that have taken place in the type of farming 

 during tin- six-year period. 



.",. To determine the change thai has taken place in crop yields, 



prices received for products, quantities of the several products 



liable foe sale, and expenses of operating the farm business, and, 



so far ;i- practicable, their effect upon the farm profits of the ;irea. 

 M MMAHY OF BESULTS. 



The more important fact- brought out by this studj maj be sum- 

 marized as follow - : 



Typi "l farming. General crop fanning with live stocb 



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