FARM MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF OHESTEB COUNTY, PA. 99 



being more valuable to the Pennsylvania farmer, he takes better care 

 of it than does his Michigan competitor. 



These figures are at best a mere first approximation to an im- 

 portant result. The method here used is entirely new, and may have 

 defects which the authors have overlooked. Its importance, how- 

 ever, appears to justify its publication as a means of stimulating re- 

 search along this line. 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Adjusted labor income 25-31 



Animal units 21, 22-23 



Buildings 60, 62-05 



Butter making 46-47 



Capital 60, 65, 66-71 



Census data 10-11 



Corn 26, 28, 32, 34, 70, 73-75 



Cost accounting 30 



Crop area 13,17,18,20,30,00-70 



Crops 17-19 



Crop yields 73, 75, 76-80 



Cropping systems 3, 10, 49, 50-83 



Crops fed and pasture per animal 



unit 1 90-93 



Dairying 21, 27, 43, 46, 47, 76-78 



Definitions 21, 25, 54, 75-81 



Depreciation of farm animals 93-95 



Enterprises 16, 30, 49, 52-70 



Expenses 86-88 



Farm business, how measured 53 



Farm organization 81 



Feeds 90-93 



Fruit growing 20, 26-40 



Hay 26, 28, 38, 73, 75-83 



Hogs 21, 24, 26-49 



Horses 26, 60-95 



Income 24, 27, 30, 55-75 



Intensive farming : 14, 19-56 



Labor 60, 63, 67, 79-88 



Labor income 25, 30, 55, 63, 70, 71, 75-76 



Landlord's profit 71 



Live stock 21, 23, 65, 68, 76, 93-95 



Machinery 60, 62, 64-65 



Magnitude of business 53 



Manure 96 



Oats 26, 38, 73-75 



Pastures 13, 23-92 



Poultry 21,42 



Potatoes 17, 20, 35, 73-75 



Quality of business 73 



Receipts 24, 70-76 



Rotations 3, 10, 49-83 



Sheep 21, 26, 48-52 



Silage corn 73, 75-92 



Size of farm 13. 



53, 54, 55, 60, 62, 64, 65, 68-69 



Soy beans 84 



Special farms 25, 52, 65, 66-69 



Tenants 68 



Tenure 69 



Truck growing 12,20,26,28-41 



Types of farming__ 15, 45, 49, 50, 52, 55-70 



Utilization of land : 12 



Wheat 26, 28, 36, 73-75 



Work horses 60, 63, 68-80 



Work units 60, 63, 6S-80 



Yield, crop 73-75 



