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BULLETIN 341^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Table XLVII. — Relation of divesity index to labor income, 378 Pennsylvania 



owners. 



Diversity index. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Average 



labor 

 income. 



Average 

 adjusted 

 income. 



Average 

 size of 

 farms. 





79 

 107 

 125 



67 



8663 

 718 

 888 

 866 



Per ce nt. 

 82 

 90 

 114 

 112 



83 



3 to 3.9 ' 



90 



4 to 4.9 



94 





90 







Total 



378 



789 



100 



90 







On 125 farms the diversity index was 4 to 4.9. These made labor 

 incomes 14 per cent above the average. The remaining 67 farms 

 had a degree of diversity of 5 or more. Their labor incomes were 

 12 per cent above the average. Thus, under the conditions prevail- 

 ing in this area, the greater the degree of diversity the higher the 

 labor income until the diversity reaches about the equivalent of 4 to 5 

 equal enterprises. Beyond this there is a slight decrease in profits. 

 The largest number of farms falls in the class where the profits are 

 largest, so that on the whole the farmers of this locality practice a 

 degree of diversified farming suited to their conditions. There 

 appears to be little or no relation between the diversity of the farm 

 business and size of farm, there being little difference in the average 

 size of the farms in each of the classes of Table XLVII. 



Essentially the same thing is shown by the data given in Table 

 XL VIII. Here the same farms are classified by the proportion of 

 income received from the sale of crop products. As in the previous 

 table, there is here very little relation between size of farm and 

 degree of diversity as indicated by percentage of receipts from crops. 

 There is, however, a distinct relation between crop sales and profit 

 as indicated by labor income. 



Table XL VI II.- 



-Relation of per cent of income from crops to labor income, 378 

 Pennsylvania owners. 



Per cent of total income from crops. 



Number of 

 farms. 



Average 

 size of 

 farms. 



Average 

 labor in- 

 come. 



Average 

 adjusted 

 income. 



0to9 



19 

 35 



84 

 85 

 70 

 45 

 40 



Acres. 

 86 

 81 

 86 

 95 

 92 

 90 

 92 



$718 

 807 

 804 

 884 

 793 

 732 

 629 



Per cent. 

 93 

 117 

 104 

 114 



10 to 19 



20 to 29 



30 to 39 



40 to 49 



94 



50to59 



84 

 S3 



60 and over 







Total or average 



378 



90 



789 



100 







Those farms deriving from 10 to 39 per cent of their income from 

 the sale of crops make considerably higher labor incomes than those 

 deriving either more or less of their incomes from this source. There 

 appears to be considerable latitude in this matter, since three of the 



