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BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



been idle a large portion of the year and would have made propor- 

 tionately smaller incomes. 



The classes of feed crops grown and their relative acreage are shown 

 in Table LIII. On the average for all the farms there are grown, 

 for each animal unit kept, corn, 0.62 acre; small grain for feed, 0.18 

 acre; and hay, 1.23 acres; a total of 2.03 acres of feedable crops per 

 animal unit. In addition to this Ave have 1.18 acres of pasture per 

 animal unit, a total of 3.21 acres of land devoted to pasture and feed- 

 able crops per animal unit. 



Table LIII. — Acres of feedable crops and pasture per animal unit on 378 owner 



farms, Chester County. 





f 40 or 

 \ less. 



41 to 

 60. 



61 to 



80. 



81 to 

 100. 



101 to 

 120. 



121 to 

 160. 



Over 

 160. 



All 





farms. 





54 

 7.6 



61 

 12.5 



60 

 16.6 



68 

 20.2 



52 

 24.4 



61 

 26.7 



22 

 41.8 



378 



Number of animal units per farm 



19.4 





Per animal unit. 



Corn for grain 



1 0.60 



.13 



.99 



0.59 



.14 

 1.05 



0.60 



.18 

 1.22 



0.62 



.20 

 1.26 



0.63 



.17 

 1.15 



0.62 



.19 

 1.40 



0.68 



.22 

 1.26 







0.62 







Oats and other grains for feed 



All hay 



.18 

 1.23 







Total feed crops 



1.72 



.88 



1.78 

 1.08 



2.00 

 1.10 



2.08 

 1.08 



1.95 

 1.23 



2.21 

 1.27 



2.16 

 1.41 



2.03 



Pasture « 



1.18 







Grand total 



2.60 



2.86 



3.10 



3.16 



3.18 



3.48 



3.57 



3.21 







Value of farm feeds sold 



$13. 43 

 12.75 



$15. 27 

 8.85' 



$20. 55 

 9.61 



$20. 80 

 9.36 



$17. 93 

 11.10 



$25. 41 

 i 8.34 



$30. 25 

 13.37 



$21. 08 





10.11 







« Does not include work horses. 



The last two lines of this table show that a considerable proportion 

 of the feedable crops are sold, the amount realized therefrom being 

 considerably greater than the amount expended for f eedstuffs bought. 



PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF SILAGE. 



Of the 378 owners operating their own farms, 56 had silos (see 

 Table LIV) . Silage is fed an average of 203 days during the year, 

 or about 6f months. The average amount fed per day, as estimated 

 by 24 of the farmers feeding this material, was 40 pounds per cow. 

 Estimates of the amount fed per day are presumably based on occa- 

 sional weighings of the feed given. But in estimating the amount 

 of silage stored on the farm it is customary to base estimates on silo 

 capacity as given by King's rules. The farmers' estimates of the 

 amount of silage stored by them amount to 46 pounds per head per 

 day for the usual feeding period, a difference of 13.1 per cent of the 

 amount stored. If both these estimates are approximately correct, 

 they indicate an average loss of silage stored amounting to 13 per 

 cent. 



