A FIVE-YEAR FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN OHIO. 



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The percentage of the total farm receipts from the sale of dairy 

 products was less in 1916 than in 1915, not because the dairy receipts 

 were less in 1916, but because the receipts from other sources were 

 somewhat more. 



Pe^LTRY AND EGGS. 



All farms kept poultry, and the sales of poultry and eggs consti- 

 tuted the second highest source of income, amounting to $169 per farm, 



Fig. 9. — In Palmer Township the sales of poultry and eggs have amounted to more than 

 those from any other source except cattle. The poultry house shown in the upper 

 picture is typical of those on many of the farms that receive over $200 per year from 

 the sale of poultry and eggs. It was built in 1914, with a total cash outlay of $63 

 for material, and accommodates 130 hens during the winter. The flock of White 

 Leghorns in the lower picture is one of the flocks from which over $200 worth of 

 poultry and eggs are sold each year. 



of which total $138 was from the sale of eggs. Chickens represented 

 97.5 per cent of all poultry kept, and the sales of chickens and eggs 

 amounted to $167 per farm, or 99 per cent of all poultry and Qgg 

 receipts. On 18 of the farms all of the poultry was chickens. The 

 prevailing breeds were the White and Brown Leghorns, although 

 Barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Beds were also kept on 

 some farms. Turkeys were reported on five farms and ducks or 

 guineas on occasional farms. (See fig. 9.) 



