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overage farmer is able to make a labor income above $1,000. In our 

 work we must deal primarily with the average farmer and state the 

 conditions under which he can be successful. The unusual man can 

 succeed under much more difficult conditions. 



Figure 8 sIioavs the relation between labor income and size of farm 

 in graphic form. The points of the broken line in this figure rep- 

 resent the average size of farm in each of the groups shown in Table 

 XXVI and the average labor income made by each of these groups 

 of farmers. Size of farm is shown at the bottom of the figure and 

 labor income in the left margin. The broken line shows even more 

 clearly than the figures of Table XXVI that as the size of farm 

 increases the average labor income increases, and within the limits 



AVERAGE LABOR INCOME.- DOLLARS 

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 SIZE OF FARMS- ACRES 





Fig. 8. — Relation of size of farm (area) to labor income ; 378 owner farms. 



of the sizes found in this survey the increase in labor income keeps 

 pace with increase in area. If the larger farms were devoted to 

 distinctly different types of farming from the small farms, or if 

 there were many farms so large that their owners could not manage 

 them efficiently, there would probably be a different story to tell. 



Figure 9 shows quite clearly that size of farm is hot the only factor 

 of efficiency in farming. In this figure the labor income of every 

 one of the 378 farms is shown individually. Each of the 378 vertical 

 lines represents the labor income of a particular farm as measured 

 on the scale at the left of the diagram, the highest labor income 

 being approximately $3,700 on a farm of about 175 acres. In this 

 diagram the farms are arranged according to size, the smallest being 



