A FIVE-YEAR FAEM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN OHIO. 



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About 95 per cent of the entire acreage was owned or cash rented 

 throughout all the years, and the changes in farm area that did occur 

 were confined to a small percentage of the entire acreage included in 

 the 25 farms. 



Land, including buildings, was valued at $30 per acre in this area. 

 Fourteen per cent of it was too rough for cultivation at all, and re- 

 garding a much larger percentage it is questionable whether it should 

 be cultivated. From figure 5 a general idea may be formed of the 

 way the land was utilized. It shows the proportion that was still in 

 woodland or waste land, the proportion that was used for pasture 

 land, and that used for growing crops. This distribution of the farm 

 area was rather uniform for the differeat years, the more important 

 changes over the five-year period being a decrease in the proportion 

 of woodland and waste land, with an increase in the proportion of 

 crop land. 



NA/OODLAND AND 

 WASTE LAND 



PASTURE LAND 



CROP LAND 



Fig. 5. — Distribution of farm area on 25 farms, Palmer Township, Washington County, 



Ohio. 



WOODLAND AND WASTE LAND. 



About one-fifth of the total farm area, or 34 acres per farm, was 

 woodland and waste land. In 1912 the acreage of each was almost 

 equal. The acreage of waste land remained constant during the 

 entire five-year period, but that of the w^oodland decreased each year 

 until in 1916 it was only about 70 per cent of the waste land. This 

 was due to selling timber, or having it sawed into lumber, either for 

 sale or for use on the farms. The total acreage of woodland was 432 

 acres in 1912, with a decrease each succeeding year until it was 327 

 acres in 1916. This means that 105 acres were cut off during the 

 five years, or about five-sixths of an acre yearly per farm. There is 



