A FIVE-YEAR FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IX OHIO. 
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In connection with the poultry enterprise, data in addition to 
those obtained in the regular farm management survey were gathered 
on a number of farms. In these cases some member of the family 
kept a record of the flock for the farm year 1913. The data for 
11 farm flocks show that 83 per cent of the yearly egg production was 
sold. 3 per cent was used for hatching, and 11 per cent for house- 
hold purposes. These flocks varied in size from under 100 to over 200 
hens, and the annual production was 86 eggs per hen: Approxi- 
mately one-half of the yearly production was during the three months 
March, April, and May. The lowest egg production was during 
November, with an increase each succeeding month until April, the 
month of highest production. After April there was a decrease each 
succeeding month until the end of the farm year (Oct. 31). The 
highest price received for eggs in that year was 38 cents per dozen 
in November, the low- 
est 15 cents per dozen 
in April. Figure 10 
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SHEEP AXD WOOL. 
Sheep were kept on 
23 of the 25 farms, the 
number in the flocks 
varying from 1 to 146. 
For the five-year period sheep, including wool, brought the third 
highest item of income. Receipts from this source amounted to $128 
per farm, or about one-seventh of the total. The greater part of the 
receipts from the sheep enterprise came through the sale of wool, 
which amounted to $84 per farm. All sheep reported were of the 
fine-wool breeds. (See fig. 11.) 
Eeturns from sheep were low when compared with returns from 
other classes of stock. The receipts for each 10 head of sheep were 
$34.30, while those for each cow, or her equivalent in other cattle, 
were $31.20. for each 5 hogs $53.90, for each 100 chickens $99.80, and 
for each 2 colts $48.10. 
The actual sales per animal unit from cattle were less than from 
sheep, but they did not include the value of any products used by the 
family. Data obtained from a number of these farms show that 
cattle furnished more toward the family living than any other class 
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