FARM MAISTAGEMENT IN LENAWEE COUNTY, MICH. 



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. An idea of the organization of the farms of these different types 

 may be gained from a study of the som"ce from which income is 

 derived. Table VIII shows the average percentage of receipts 

 derived from the different sources for each of the different types or 

 classes. 



Table VIII. — Source of income and 'percentage of income from each source, 213 owner 

 farms of different types, Lenawee County, Mich. 



Sources of income on farms follo-ning 

 each given type of farming. 



Dairying, 



hogs, and 



grain. 



Dairying 

 and hogs. 



Dairy. 



Dairying 

 and grain. 



Number of farms 



Per cent of income from — 



Dau-y products 



Dairy cattle 



Beef cattle and feeding steers 



Horses _ 



Colts 



Ewes and lambs 



Feeding sheep . . . , 



Hogs 



Poultry .' 



Total Uve stock 



Com 



Potatoes 



■Wheat 



Oats 



Barley 



other grain 



Hay...... 



Truck 



Fruit 



Feed and supplies 



Total crops and feed 



Miscellaneous a 



37.3 

 6.7 



.7 



2.1 



2.2 



.1 



25.3 



7.2 



81.6 



.8 



.3 



4.0 



1.7 



.1 



.3 



1.0 



.1 



.6 



7.3 



16.2 



2.2 



8.2 



2.2 

 1.2 



8.2 



6.6 



76.8 



.1 



4.6 



1.5 



.5 



• .2 



2.6 



.2 



.1 



10.0 



19.8 



3.4 



39.7 

 4.3 



1.0 

 1.2 

 1.1 



9.4 

 5.4 



62.1 



2.0 



.2 



18.8 

 8.7 

 3.7 



.1 



3.2 

 37.5 



.4 



a Includes man and team labor, machine work, sale of lumber, sale of sirup and sugar,rent of buildings, 

 and cider making. 



It will be seen that the farms classed as ''dairy, hogs, and grain" 

 derive only about one-fourth (25.4 per cent) of their incomes from 

 the sale of dairy products; 14 per cent from the sale of hogs; and 

 10.5 per cent from the sale of wheat. The minor sources of income 

 are as foUows: Poultry, 7.1 per cent; oats, 5 per cent; dairy cattle, 

 4.5 per cent; hay, 4.6 per cent; ewes and lambs, 4.7 per cent; and 

 feeding sheep, 3.5 per cent. It will be noted that these farms show 

 distinctly a wider diversity in their sources of income than any of 

 the other classes. 



The dairy and hog farms receive 37.3 per cent of the total receipts 

 from the sale of dairy products and 25.3 per cent from hogs, and the 

 dairy and grain farms an average of 39.7 per cent of the total receipts 

 from the sale of dairy products, and 18.8 per cent from the sale of 

 wheat. 



Looking in a general way at the organization of the farms of the 

 area studied and the types of farming established, some important 

 features are brought out in regard to the relative amounts of crops 



