FARMING IN SOUTHWESTERN KENTUCKY. 4 
labor income of these farms was $158, as compared with $356, the 
average of all farms. : 
Live stock on the average successful farm of 300 acres of improved 
land was distributed approximately as follows: 
Live stock on average successful farm of 300 acres of improved land. 
Per Per 100 acres 
farm. improved land. 
COS ya Se a Te gd SN a ae ap oe ee eg ee 6 2 
PVOUEIOS TSO Cesena SE rst ae ee 6 De 
Qos ie se ee re en men ewan sk et sy GORe: 20 
SLOCKa Cait t] Gtmcen eer Spee plbae mene Bink Me Ooo are ee tS 6 2 
DS OY SYS ek eS a Sh ac ly in eS 45 15 
Oui ry2 ee Bay Ts nes 2 es ee 150 50 
WOT SO Cig keene eee yee ey See IE TEs Rs 10 3 
Acres improved land per 1,000-pound animal, 6.6. 
Ordinarily farms in this section are not as heavily stocked as they 
should be. The diversified farms on this type of soil should have a 
carrying capacity of at least one 1,000-pound animal for each 6 to 7 
acres of improved land. 
DIVERSITY. . 
A proper diversity of sources of income is an important factor in 
profitable farming. In the first place, this stabilizes the income 
from year to year. It is seldom that conditions which make one sin- 
gle crop unprofitable will affect all crops in the same manner. For 
instance, dry weather during the latter part of May and June may 
have a bad effect on corn and tobacco, when usually such conditions 
are favorable for wheat. In the second place, by means of diversity 
a better distribution of labor is secured. Tobacco furnishes work 
during every month of the year. Other crops require attention for 
shorter periods during the growing season. By long experience 
these various crops have come into an adjustment which meets all 
conditions in a practical and generally advantageous manner. Of 
course, on many farms a better adjustment could be secured by more 
careful planning along the lines indicated by general experience. 
Farms between 220 and 3800 acres in size proved to be the most 
efficiently organized among those studied, and had, also, the most 
profitable degree of diversity. They showed about three-fourths as 
much of their receipts from live stock as from tobacco. Receipts 
from wheat and tobacco were approximately equal in amount. About 
equal amounts were received also from hogs and sheep, and from 
cows and stock cattle. On farms of this size more receipts come from 
hogs than from sheep and more from stock cattle than from cows. 
On smal] farms—75 to 100 acres in size—receipts came mainly from 
some one enterprise like dairy products, hay, or tobacco. 
