FARMING IN SOUTHWESTERN KENTUCKY. 19 
Expenses were $6,470, including $2,200 paid in cash rent. This farmer did 
a successful farm business. Crop yields were somewhat below normal. Profits 
on live stock, however, were good and above the average, the live-stock receipts 
being $145 for each $100 worth of feed consumed. A great factor in the 
~ guecess of the business was 888 acres of land rented for cash, a little less than 
$2.50 per acre. The landlord received, however, about 3 per cent on his 
investment. 
This farm should have carried more live stock to conform to the 
standards of the more successful farmers. The equivalent of 114 
1,000-pound animals were carried, when the number should have been 
about 150. No sheep were kept. The organization could have been 
improved if there had been about 150 ewes. This would have about 
rounded out the stocking of the farm. 
Field crops were proportioned approximately according to the 
standards of the average farm of this size. 
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