A FIVE-YEAR FAEM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN OHIO. 
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The suggestion that this crop rotation be more generally practiced 
is made with a full realization of certain 'difficulties encountered in 
planning and carrying out such a system in this area. The broken 
character of the surface renders it difficult to arrange the desired 
number of fields of the same size to be used in the crop-rotation sys- 
tem. However, the surface features of the farms on which rotation 
systems have been established were no more favorable for this arrange- 
ment than are those of many of the farms lacking a definite 
rotation system. It is largely a question of a farmer realizing the 
importance of such a system. When this is once realized, by careful 
planning the fields of most farms can be arranged more favorably 
for establishing a definite crop-rotation system. 
RECEIPTS. 
The farm receipts in this area amounted to $925 per farm for the 
five-year average, ranging from $796 in 1913 to $1,112 in 1916. (See 
Table I). There was considerable diversity in the sources of income, 
as shown by the percentage distribution of the receipts in Table III. 
The sales of live stock, together with such products as butter, cream,, 
eggs, and wool, amounted to $672 per farm, while the sales of crops 
amounted to $165 per farm. Approximately, then, almost three- 
fourths of the receipts were from live stock and its products. 
Table III. — Percentage distribution of receipts on 25 farms over a period 
of 5 years, 1912-1916 (Palmer Township, Washington County, Ohio). 
Item. 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
5-year 
average. 
Per cent. 
26 
Per cent. 
10 
Per cent. 
16 
Per cent. 
20 
Per cent. 
16 
Per cent. 
18 
Live stock receipts: 
Cattle a 
19 
4 
20 
7 
17 
27 
1 
12 
13 
20 
23 
3 
13 
16 
20 
28 
1 
12 
13 
18 
31 
1 
12 
13 
18 
26 
2 
14 
12 
19 
67 
73 
75 
72 
75 
73 
7 
17 | 9 
8 
9 
9 
a Inclu 
des sale of 
CAT 
dairy prod 
TLE. 
ucts. 
Most of the cattle in this area represented good types of the beef 
breeds. A number of the bulls were pure-bred Herefords or Short- 
horns, and some pure-bred cows were kept on a few farms. More 
receipts were obtained from cattle than from any other source. For 
the five-year average, cattle receipts amounted to $240 per farm, 
increasing from $168 in 1912 to $339 in 1916. This increase of over 
100 per cent in the cattle receipts is attributed to an increase in the 
