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BULLETIN 853, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table II. — Products sold or added to inventory per farm on 159 dairy farms and 190 

 general farms, Grove City, Pa., area. 



Product. 



Unit. 



Amount per farm. 



Dairy 

 farms. 



General 

 farms. 



Value per unit. 



Range. 



Dairy cows 



Cattle 



Horses 



Hogs 



Chickens 



Sheep 



Butterfat 



Eggs 



Wool 



Corn 



Wheat 



Oats 



Rye 



Buckwheat 



Potatoes 



Hay 



Apples 



Strawberries 



Timothy seed 



Clover seed 



Maple sirup 



Man and team labor. 

 Man labor 



Head . . 

 Pound. 

 Head . . 

 Pound. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



Dozen . , 

 Pound . 

 Bushel. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



Ton 



Barrel . 

 Quart.. 

 Bushel. 



do.. 



Gallon . 

 Day.... 

 do. 



1.8 

 ,565 



0.3 



935 



338 



62 



,122 



265 



5 



4 



22 



8 



1 



14 



19 



2.3 



5 



1 

 2,171 



1, 235' 



391 



543 



429 



273 



39 



6 



32 



16 



1 



16 

 16 

 5. 

 4 

 6 



$40.00 to 



.06 to 



25.00 to 



.08 to 



.12 to 



.065 to 



.36 to 



.20 to 



.32 to 



.80 to 



1.55 to 



.70 to 



1.10 to 



.60 to 



1.50 to 



9.00 to 



1.50 to 



.08 to 



2.50 to 



8.00 to 



1.00 to 



3.00 to 



1.00 to 



$100. 00 



.09 



300.00 



.12 



.17 



.10 



.52 



.40 



.65 



2.00 



3.00 



1.00 



1.60 



1.20 



3.00 



15.00 



3.00 



.12 



4.00 



13.00 



2.00 



5.50 



3.50 



SO. 0779 



.0962 



.15 



.0838 



.43 



.25 



.36 



.98 

 1.70 



.72 

 1.06 

 1.03 

 2.04 

 11.32 

 1.83 



.09 

 3.36 

 11.46 

 1.32 

 4.54 

 2.57 



It will be noted that in only two principal sources of receipts did 

 the dairy farms exceed the general in amount produced for sale. The 

 production of cows and butter fat was greater on the dairy farms. 



It should not be inferred that all of the farms sold those products, 

 but the figures given simply represent the average of the farms taken 

 as a whole; for example, of the 349 farms only 75 farms reported 

 sales of sheep or wool, 36 of corn, 159 of wheat, 61 of oats, 16 of rye, 

 101 of buckwheat, 138 of potatoes, 105 of apples, 10 of strawberries, 

 134 of hay, 37 of clover seed, and 15 of timothy seed. 



Woodland also has a share in the farm production of this area. 

 While, as shown in Table IV, the cash receipts from this source were 

 small, its contributions in the way of fuel and repair material for the 

 upkeep of fences and buildings were of considerable importance. 



The range of prices is due to the quality of the product at the time 



of selling, the fluctuations of market prices, and the marketing ability 



of the farmer selling them. It is hardly practicable to itemize all of 



the smaller items of farm receipts, but the above list represents over 



90 per cent of the farm receipts and all of the principal sources of 



receipts. 



DISTRIBUTION OF FARM AREA. 



The farm area on 349 farms in the region considered averaged in 

 size 101 acres, and in respect to utilization was distributed as follows: 



Tillable area: Percent. 



Crop area 48 



Tillable pasture 12 



Untillable pasture 20 



Woodland (pastured) 10 



Woodland 4 



Waste 6 



