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;en times as great as it is in the Chester County area. Beef <m 1 1 1<- 

 ire nearly as important as hogs in the corn-belt area, and sixteen 

 inn's us much as in Chester County. As has already been seen, the 

 percentage of corn acreage in the Illinois area is more than twice as 

 pleat as it is in the Chester County area. The Chester County farmer 

 itows a great deal of corn, it being his second most important crop. 

 >ut he uses most of this corn on the place. Many of the Illinois 

 'a riners sell their corn, mostly to neighbors who feed their own as 

 veil as their neighbor's corn to hogs and beef cattle. Corn is thus 

 he third largest source of direct income in the western area, while 

 n the eastern one it stands eighth. Wheat is the only source of in- 

 •ome of approximately equal importance in the two localities. 



Fig. 7. — Sources and amount of receipts on 378 Chester County (Pa.) owner farms. 

 MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES OF INCOME. 



In addition to the sources of income mentioned in Table VIII, the 

 lumber of other farm products found here and there on a few farms 

 s very small in the Chester County area. They are as follows: 

 Seven farms sold a little corn fodder; five sold a little sweet corn; 

 iverage of $22 worth of chestnuts were sold from two farms; two 

 iold an average of $21 worth of rye; and the following products 

 :onstituted a source of income on one farm each : Sweet peas, $300 ; 

 cornstalks, $50; tobacco, $616; millet, $84; clover seed, $90; timothy 

 >eed, $110 ; and broom corn, $24. 



The relation of sources of income to size of farm is shown in Table 

 [X. The proportion of income from dairy products increases 

 slightly till the group of farms of 101 to 120 acres is reached. The 

 ;wo larger groups derive somewhat less of their income from this 

 source than the last-named group. 



