A FIVE-YEAR FARM MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN OHIO. 
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About 95 per cent of the entire acreage was owned or cash rented 
throughout all the years, and the changes in farm area that did occur 
were confined to a small percentage of the entire acreage included in 
the 25 farms. 
Land, including buildings, was valued at $30 per acre in this area. 
Fourteen per cent of it was too rough for cultivation at all, and re- 
garding a much larger percentage it is questionable whether it should 
be cultivated: From figure 5 a general idea may be formed of the 
way the land was utilized. It shows the proportion that was still in 
woodland or waste land, the proportion that was used for pasture 
land, and that used for growing crops. This distribution of the farm 
area was rather uniform for the different years, the more important 
changes over the five-year period being a decrease in the proportion 
of woodland and waste land, with an increase in the proportion of 
crop land. 
Fig. 5. — Distribution of farm area on 25 farms. Palmer Township, Washington County, 
Ohio. 
WOODLAND AND WASTE LAND. 
About one-fifth of the total farm area, or 31 acres per farm, was 
woodland and waste land. In 1912 the acreage of each was almost 
equal. The acreage of waste land remained constant during the 
entire five-year period, but that of the woodland decreased each year 
until in 1916 it was only about 70 per cent of the waste land. This 
was due to selling timber, or having it sawed into lumber, either for 
sale or for use on the farms. The total acreage of woodland was 432 
acres in 1912, with a decrease each succeeding year until it was 327 
acres in 1916. This means that 105 acres were cut off during the 
five years, or about five-sixths of an acre yearly per farm. There is 
