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BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



in Table VIII. The same data are shown in graphic form in figure 7. 

 In the case of potatoes it should be remarked that the price of this 

 commodity for the year to which this study relates (1911-12) was 

 very high, and this gives the crop a much greater apparent impor- 

 tance than the facts justify. On the face of the returns for this year 

 the potato crop occupies third place as a direct source of revenue. 

 Under average conditions it would stand fifth or sixth in the area to 

 which this study relates. This fact should be kept in mind in inter- 

 preting the data given here. 



Table VIII. — Proportion of income from various enterprises on 378 Chester 

 County farms operated by their owners and IS Illinois farms. 



Sources of income. 



Percent of total. 



378 Penn- 

 sylvania 

 farms. 



73 Illinois 

 farms. 



Dairy products 



Dairy cattle 



Beef cattle. 



Horses, mules, and colts 



Sheep 



Hogs 



Poultry and eggs 



Miscellaneous receipts a, 



Increase in feed and supplies 



Corn 



Potatoes 



Wheat 



Oats 



Hay 



Fruit 



Truck 



Miscellaneous crops 



39.1 



5.0 



1.5 



.4 



.5 



2.8 



8.2 



1.9 



4.1 



2.3 



8.9 



8.5 



.2 



14.3 



.7 



.5 



1.1 



(«•) 



0.9 



2.2 



23.6 



5.2 



.3 



28.4 



1.9 



.5 



2.0 



19.3 



i 



10.7 



3.7 



.4 



.0 



.0 



100.0 



a Labor, outside the farm, wood sold, etc. 



b Less than 0.1 per cent. 



Taking the community as a whole, we find dairying occupying the 

 place of greatest prominence. If we add together the receipts from 

 dairy products and those from the sale of calves and dairy cows, this 

 industry is found to account for more than three times as great a pro- 

 portion of the income on these farms as any other enterprise. Hay 

 stands second, while wheat and poultry represent other important 

 sources of income Ordinarily potatoes stand on a par with dairy 

 cattle here. The remaining enterprises which are of sufficient magni- 

 tude to be represented on the scale of figure 7 are hogs, corn, steers, 

 straw, fruit, truck, sheep, horses and colts, and oats, in the order 

 named. 



For the sake of comparison with a region where economic condi- 

 tions are vastly different from those prevailing in Chester County, 

 similar data are given in Table VIII for the group of Illinois farms 

 previously mentioned. In this Illinois area the most important 

 source of income is hogs, the percentage of income from them being 



