FAEMING ON CUT-OVER LANDS. 



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receipts from the sale of dairy products. This plan, known from its 

 place of origin as the '^Ashland Plan," is attended with some risk to 

 those who guarantee the loans, but in most instances it appears to 

 have met with considerable success. When well managed, it has 

 helped materially to improve the quality of the dairy cattle. 



As the country develops, more money will become available for 

 the improvement of dairy herds. This improvement could be greatly 

 hastened now at moderate expense by securing better bulls. Some 

 owners of dairy farms in this district keep first-class cows. These 

 men are making monej^. On a few such farms the herd bulls are 

 of excellent quality and breeding. For this district probably the 

 next most important problem after increasing tillable area is the 

 securmg of more and better cows. (See fig. 8.) 



Fig. S. — Dairy herd on pasture in cut-over district. 

 INFLUENCE OF CROP YIELDS ON LABOR INCOME. 



Table 8 shows the relation existing between crop yields and in- 

 comes. The family income is $193 higher, and the labor income 

 SI 23 higher on the 355 farms that have crop yields above the average 

 than on the other 446 farms. 



Table 8. — Income cs affected by crop yields. 

 [.VveragR of HOI farms.] 



Rantre of crop yields 

 (percent).' 



Number ^^L^tF^ 

 ofrarm.s. ^J^g 



1 



Farm 

 area. 



Crop 

 area. 



Family 

 income. 



Family 



labor' 



income. 



Farm 

 income. 



Labor 

 income. 



Atwve 100 



100 or less 



Per cent. 

 355 119 

 446 S3 



Act en. 

 107.8 

 107.6 



Acres. 

 49.30 



48.77 



mm 



473 



!B292 

 l.'-.O 



$491 

 312 



Sll.S 



Dlf/ercnce 





M 



.2 



. 53 193 



136 179 



123 











t:..\ 













' .\vcrage ylold.'j'of all farms taken as 100 per cent. 



