A FIVE-YEAR FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN OHIO. 33 



The receipts from hogs for the five-year period averaged $118 per 

 farm, or one-eighth of the total receipts, and varied from $61 per 

 farm in 1912 to $154 in 1914. A few of the farmers bought pigs for 

 growing their own pork supply, but most of them kept one or two 

 brood sows. Sixteen per cent of the farmers sold no hogs, 44 per 

 cent sold from $42 to $100 worth, and 40 per cent sold over $100 

 worth. The production of hogs in this locality is necessarily limited 

 because of the small amount of corn produced. 



HORSES AND COLTS. 



Horses are kept on these farms primarily for the work they do, 

 and but few of the mares raise colts. Most of these colts, after grow- 

 ing into horses, are either sold or replace horses that have died or 

 that have been sold. The receipts from horses and colts were there- 

 fore low, amounting to only $28 per farm, or about 2 per cent of the 

 total receipts. 



CROP SAXES. 



The total crop sales amounted to $165 per farm, or $4 less than the 

 sales of poultry and eggs. 



Almost all crops produced were represented in the crop sales, but 

 6ver seven-eighths of the total crop sales were from the four crops, 

 wheat, hay, fruit, and corn, named in the order of their importance. 

 The remaining one-eighth of the crop receipts amounted to $18 per 

 farm, and included the sale of clover seed, potatoes, oats, rye, soy 

 beans, straw, fodder, cider, and vinegar. 



MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



In addition to selling live stock, butter, cream, eggs, wool, and farm 

 crops, many of the farmers received some money from the sale of 

 lumber, posts, wood, or shackle poles, for the rent of pasture or farm 

 buildings, for the use of part of the farm equipment, such as the farm 

 machinery or the farm team, and for part of their own labor or time. 

 These have all been considered receipts of the farm business and 

 designated " miscellaneous receipts." They totaled $81 per farm, and 

 made up a little less than one-tenth of the total farm receipts. Most 

 of these receipts were for work done off the farms, either by the 

 farmers alone or with their teams, and included such work as day 

 labor on other farms, official work, road work, hauling coal, and 

 moving oil rigs. 



EXPENSES. 



All costs in connection with operating the farm business above 

 those of interest on investment and value of the farmer's own labor 



