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BULLETIN 716, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
A brief summary of the business conducted on these farms is 
presented in Table XIV. The data shown are for the average of the 
farms in the different-sized groups. Comparisons of these groups, 
one with another, will readily show that the size of the farm busi- 
ness is a very important factor in returning profits. 
Table XIV. — Summary of the farm business on 13 farms, by size of farm (crop 
area) (Palmer Township, Washington County, Ohio). 
[Except for number of farms, the figures are averages.] 
Item. 
30 crop- 
acres and 
under. 
31 to 45 
crop- 
acres. 
Over 45 
crop- 
acres. 
18 
88 
24 
8.2 
2.2 
29 
120 
38 
11.0 
2.4 
26 
196 
57 
18 6 
3 
Crop yield per acre a per cent. . 
Receipts per animal unit a do 
96 
104 
97 
98 
106 
100 
$3,817 
484 
232 
252 
191 
61 
$4, 860 
693 
307 
386 
243 
143 
$7,807 
1,152 
513 
639 
Interest on investment at 5 per cent 
390 
249 
$236 
.4 
$278 
2.2 
$2S7 
45 
$252 
47 
299 
3 
296 
$386 
60 
446 
13 
433 
$639 
98 
737 
18 
719 
a Percentage of average for all farms. 
b After deducting value of farmer's labor from farm income. 
c The sum of farm income and value of unpaid family labor, or the amount available for family living 
had there been no interest to pay. 
The farmers producing 45 acres or more of crops, on apparently no 
better land, used a little more fertilizer per crop acre and obtained 
better yields than the farmers obtained who produced a smaller acre- 
age of crops. 
On the small farms the receipts per animal unit were slightly more 
than on the large farms. This was mainly due to the proportionate 
numbers of the different kinds of stock on the farms of different size. 
Poultry represents a slightly higher percentage of the total produc- 
tive live stock on the farms with 30 acres or less of crops and returned 
higher receipts than any other kind of live stock. 
The proportion of the farm area in woodland and waste land, in 
pasture land and in crop land was quite uniform in the different size 
groups, but the proportion of the crop land in corn and in the small 
grains varied somewhat on the different-sized farms. On the farms 
with 30 acres or under of crops the corn acreage was somewhat more 
than the small-grain acreage; on the farms with 31 to 45 acres of 
crops the acreage of each was about equal ; and on the farms with 
