BULLETIN 853, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table I. — Summary of the farm business of 159 dairy farms and 190 general farms, 



Grove City, Pa., area, 1916. 



Farm area 



Crop area 



Months of man labor 



Number of productive animal units' 

 Number of work stock 



Investment 



Receipts 



Expenses 



Farm income 



Interest on investment at 5 per cent. 

 Labor income 



Value of farmer's labor . . . 

 Per cent on investment 2 . 



Farm income 



Value of unpaid family labor 



Family income 3 



Interest paid on indebtedness 



Amount available for family living and savings . 



Dairy 

 farms 

 (159). 



A verage. 

 97 

 48 

 17 

 15 

 3 



88,112 

 1,366 

 681 

 685 

 406 

 279 



S356 

 4.1 



102 



787 



14 



773 



General 

 farms 

 (190). 



Avcraoe. 

 104 

 48 

 16 

 13 

 3 



$7,252 

 1,135 

 482 

 653 

 362 

 291 



8316 

 4.7 



8653 



67 



720 



6 



714 



1 Inncludes all stock except work stock. 

 * After deducting farmer's labor from farm income. 



3 The sum of farm income and value of unpaid family labor, or the amount available for family living 

 and savings had there been no interest to pay. 



Fig. 5.— Farmstead of typical dairy farm of the better class. 



In Table I is given a summary of the farm business of 159 dairy 

 and 190 general farms. From this summary can be drawn some 

 comparisons of the size of farm, crop area, amount of labor, amount 

 of live stock, capital, receipts, expenses, and profits. All these 

 factors are of vital importance to those operating farms of these 

 types and those contemplating farming under conditions such as 

 exist here. 



The average farm income, which represents the difference between 

 the total receipts and total expenses, was $685 on the dairy farms 

 and $653 on the general farms. In the expenses a sum is included 

 for the value of the labor performed on the farm by the farmer's 

 family, which averaged $102 on the dairy farms and $67 on the 



