Acknowledgments 



The Departments of Agricultural Economics in the Colleges 

 of Agriculture in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arkansas 

 cooperated in this study with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The States furnished 

 enumerators to do the field work. The United States Department of 

 Agriculture furnished printed schedules to record the information. 

 The same form was used in each State. 



All calculations and tabulations from these records as pub- 

 lished in this report were made by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



It usually required 3 hours or more for the enumerator to 

 fill out the schedule for one farm, and about as much more time 

 for him to copy and check each record. Complete records on both 

 farm business and costs were obtained for 548 farms. On a few of 

 these farms, two cost records were obtained. 



A tribute to the patience of both farmers and enumerators 

 is here made. The names of the enumerators and the number of com- 

 plete records taken by each follow: Pennsylvania: J. T. Vanden- 

 burg 41, P. I. W-rigley 36, G. P. Scoville^ 25; Total 102. New 

 York: A. B. Lewis 54, Broder F. Lucas 49, G. P. Scoville^ 46, 

 Rollin H. Barrett 34, A. Knoblauch 27, D. D. Harkness 18, H. g! 

 Becker 17, H. J, Stover 12, E. P. Dargan 11, Milo F. Winchester 7, 

 L. B. Foreman 2; Total 277. Michigan: F. T. Riddell 15, G. P. Scoville^ 

 13, K. H. Myers^^ 12, A. Knoblauch 11, J. J. Bird 11, E. A. Orr 10, 

 K. A. Sprague 8, Oscar Steanson-^-^ 8, E. B. Hill 3; Total 91. Arkan- 

 sas: E. P. Dargan 44, G. P, Scoville* 33, Peter Nelson 1; Total 

 78.^ The number of records taken is not a measure of the rate of 

 taking records, as the total time the enumerators worked varied 

 from 3 days to 3 months or more. 



Employed part time by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and part time by Cornell University. 

 **Employees of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



