FARMIISTG IN SOUTHWESTERN KENTUCKY. 19 



Expenses were $6,470, including $2,200 paid in casli rent. This farmer did 

 a successful farm business. Crop yields were somewhat below normal. Profits 

 on live stock, however, were good and above the average, the live-stock receipts 

 being $145 for each $100 worth of feed consumed. A great factor in the 

 success of the business was 888 acres of land rented for cash, a little less than 

 $2.50 per acre. The landlord received, however, about 3 per cent on his 

 investment. 



This farm should have carried more live stock to conform to the 

 standards of the more successful farmers. The equivalent of 114 

 1,000-pouncl animals were carried, when the number should have been 

 about 150. No sheep were kept. The organization could have been 

 improved if there had been about 150 ewes. This would have about 

 rounded out the stocking of the farm. 



Field crops were proportioned approximately according to the 

 standards of the average farm of this size. 



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