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BULLETIN 716, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A brief summary of the business conducted on these farms is 

 presented in Table XIV. The data shown are for the average of the 

 farms in the different-sized groups. Comparisons of these groups, 

 one with another, will readil^y show that the size of the farm busi- 

 ness is a very important factor in returning profits. 



T^vBLE XIV. — Suvunary of ihc farm 'business on 73 farms, hi/ size of farm {crop 

 area) {Palmer Toirnslup, Washington County, Ohio). 



[Except for number of farms, the figures are averages.] 



Item. 



30 crop- 

 acres and 

 imder. 



31 to 45 

 crop- 

 acres. 



Over 4.5 

 crop- 

 acres. 



Number of farms 



Farm area acres. . 



Crop area do 



Number of productive animal units 



Number of work stock 



Crop yield per acre a per csnt . . 



Receipts per animal unit a do 



Investment 



Receipts 



Expenses 



Farm income 



Interest on investment at 5 per cent . 



Labor income 



Value of farmer's labor 



Per cent on investment b 



Farm income 



Value of unpaid family labor 



Family income c 



Interest paid on indebtedness 



Amount available for family living 



18 



24 

 8.2 

 2.2 



29 

 120 



38 

 11.0 

 2.4 



26 



196 



57 



18.6 



3 



96 

 104 



97 



106 

 100 



,817 

 484 

 232 

 252 

 191 

 61 



,860 

 693 

 307 

 386 

 243 

 143 



$7, 807 

 1, 1.52 

 513 

 639 

 390 

 219 



S2S7 

 4 5 



252 



$386 



47 



60 



299 



446 



3 



13 



296 



433 



S639 



98 



737 



18 



719 



a Percentage of average for all farms. 



6 After deducting value of farmer's labor from farm income. 



c The sum of farm income and value of unpaid family labor, or the amount available for family lining 

 had there been no interest to pay. 



The farmers producing 45 acres or more of crops, on apparently no 

 better land, used a little more fertilizer per crop acre and obtained 

 better yields than the farmers obtained who produced a smaller acre- 

 age of crops. 



On the small farms the receipts per animal unit were slightly more 

 than on the large farms. This was mainly due to the proportionate 

 numbers of the different kinds of stock on the farms of different size. 

 Poultry represents a slightly higher percentage of the total produc- 

 tive live stock on the farms with 30 acres or less of crops and retun.ed 

 higher receipts than any other kind of live stock. 



The proportion of the farm area in woodland and waste land, in 

 pasture land and in crop land was quite uniform in the different size 

 groups, but the proportion of the crop land in corn and in the small 

 grains varied somewhat on the different-sized farms. On the farms 

 with 30 acres or under of crops the com acreage was somewhat more 

 than the small-grain acreage; on the farms with 31 to 45 acres of 

 crops the acreage of each was about equal ; and on the farms with 



