A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS. 



BREED OF COWS. 

 Table III. — Breed of cows. 



Item. 



84 Green County, 

 Wis., farms. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Per cent 

 of all 

 farms. 



59 Kane County, 

 111., farms. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Per cent 

 of all 

 farms. 



Farms having all pure-bred cows (all Holstein) 



Farms having part pure-bred cows 



Farms having grade Holstein cows 



Farms having cows of mixed grade 



Farms having pure-bred bulls 



Farms having pure-bred Holstein bulls 



From Table III it is seen that on a few of the farms of the Wis- 

 consin group the cows are all pure bred, while on none of those of 

 the Illinois group are they all pure bred. The dominant breed of 

 cow in both regions is the Holstein and more than half of the farms 

 in the groups from each State have pure-bred Holstein bulls. 



SOURCES OF INCOME. 



The regions in which these records were taken are distinctly dairy 

 regions. Though on some of the Wisconsin farms studied a large 

 part of the farm income is derived from the sale of hogs, in no other 

 section of the United States, with the probable exception of several 

 New York and New Jersey counties, is the farm income so largely 

 derived from the sale of dairy products as in the regions under dis- 

 cussion. The extent to which the farm income is dependent on 

 dairy products in this region will be seen from Table IV. For pur- 

 poses of comparison the per cent of farm income from various 

 products in several other regions is given. 



Table IV. — Sources of farm income on Wisconsin and Illinois share-rented 

 dairy farms, compared with Illinois stock farms, Texas cotton farms, and 

 Pennsylvania dairy farms. 



[Per cent of receipts.] 





Share-rented farms. 



Cotton farms. 



General. 



Sources of farm income. 



84 dairy 



farms in 



Green 



County, Wis. 



59 dairy 



farms in 



Kane 



County, HI. 



124 dairy 



farms in 



Chester 



County, Pa. 



115 farms 



in Ellis 



County, 



Tex. 



73 central 



Illinois 



stock farms. 



Dairy cattle and their products . . 



75 

 i 20 



85 

 (i 



54 

 3 



8 

 2 

 8 

 

 

 11 

 7 

 

 7 





 6 





 2 

 

 1 

 

 2 

 

 86 

 3 



3 





2 2 

 1 

 3 



2 





19 



Wheat 



11 







 

 

 

 

 3 



1 

 1 

 1 

 

 



1 



4 



Rye 







Hay 





















4 







Total 



100 



100 



100 



100 



100 



1 From hogs, 19 per cent. 



2 From beef cattle, 24; hogs, 28; horses, 5 per cent. 



