6 BULLETIN 492, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



June, July, August, and September there was an average of 4.8 

 inches of rainfall per month. 



METHOD OF PROCEDURE. 



The method used in getting together the data upon which this 

 bulletin is based was adopted by the Office of Farm Management 

 after long experience with different means and methods. 1 



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-A comparison of the rainfall of Sumter County in 1913 with the 10-year 

 average from 1904 to 1913, inclusive. 



During the months of April and May, 1914, investigators from the 

 Office of Farm Management familiar with southern agriculture 

 visited Sumter County and made a study of farm-management prob- 

 lems in that region. These men visited each farm in this locality 

 and made a complete record of a year's business transactions, to- 

 gether with an inventory of all the farm investment for the begin- 

 ning and for the end of the farm year. The farm year in this lo- 

 cality extends from January 1 to January 1, and the particular year 



1 An outline explaining the use of this method, together with copies of the blank forms 

 used, may be obtained by applying to the U. S. Department of Agriculture for Farmers' 

 Bulletin GG1. 





