UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



% BULLETIN No. 716 Agpj^. 



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Office of the Secretary 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 



W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 



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Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



September 26, 1918 



A FIVE-YEAR FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN 

 PALMER TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON COUNTY, 

 OHIO, 1912-1916. 



By H. W. Hawthoe>'e, Scientiflc Assistant. 



CONTENTS. 



General nature of the area and the study. 



Objects of the study 



Summary of results 



General description of area , 



Page. 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 3 



Page. 

 Method of study 10 



A five-year study of 25 farms 11 



A study of 73 farms, by size and quahty of 

 business 47 



GENERAL NATURE OF THE AREA AND THE STUDY. 



This bulletin presents a study of a farm-management survey of 

 73 southeastern Ohio hill farms, on 25 of which the survey was con- 

 ducted for five successive years, 1912 to 1916, inclusive.^ All these 

 farms are located in one township of Washington County. (See 

 fig. 1.) In common with many other areas of the hill country 

 drained by the Ohio Eiver, the land here is fairly productive and 

 comparatively low priced. The farms are some distance from rail- 

 road points, and the wagon roads are hilly and unimproved. 



The findings for this area, though strictly applicable only to the 

 farms surveyed, offer valuable suggestions to farmers located on the 

 numerous similar areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 

 West Virginia, and Kentucky. 



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OBJECTS OF THE STUDY. 



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 hill 



* During the first two years the survey was conducted in cooperation with the Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. During the three succeeding years it was conducted 

 by the Office of Farm Management alone. 

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