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BULLETIN 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
prove a source of valuable suggestion to other farmers of the com- 
munity. The greater part of the following discussion centers around 
this group of 25 farms. 
SUMMARY OF THE FARM BUSINESS. 
A brief summary of the business conducted on these farms is pre- 
sented in Table I. The data shown are averages for the 25 farms for 
each year from 1912 to 1916, with the five-year average in the last 
column. 
Table I. — Sum 
1912- 
mary of the farm business of 25 farms for a period of fh 
-1916 (Palmer Township, Washington County, Ohio). 
e years, 
Item. 
Averages, all farms, by years. 
1912 
1913 
1916 
Five- 
year 
average. 
Farm area acres. 
Crop area do. . . 
Number of productive animal units 
Number of work stock 
158 
44 
13.5 
2.6 
156 
42 
14.4 
2.7 
156 
39 
15.3 
2.6 
154 
44 
14.9 
2.8 
156 
46 
16.1 
2.7 
156 
43 
14.9 
2.7 
Investment 
Receipts 
E xpenses ' 
Farm income 
Interest on investment, at 5 per cent , 
Labor income 
5,087 
868 
412 
456 
304 
152 
$6, 422 
934 
423 
511 
321 
190 
S6, 527 
916 
430 
486 
326 
160 
$6,639 
1,112 
456 
656 
332 
324 
$6, 378 
925 
419 
506 
319 
187 
Value of farmer's labor . . . 
Per cent on investment a. 
S2SS 
2.8 
S2S1 
2.2 
$295 
3.4 
$290 
3.0 
S29S 
5.4 
$290 
3.4 
Farm income 
Value of unpaid family labor 
Family income b 
Interest paid on indebtedness 
Amount available for family living 
$465 
86 
542 
19 
523 
S421 
85 
506 
19 
487 
$511 
92 
603 
14 
589 
$486 
90 
576 
12 
564 
$656 
82 
738 
6 
732 
$506 
87 
593 
14 
579 
Crop yields per cent . . 
Receipts per animal unit do 
Price received for farm products do 
Quantity of farm products sold do 
Percentage 
of five-year average 
110 89 
94 
106 
101 
93 
97 
99 
98 
113 
91 
98 
99 
100 
112 
108 
81 
101 
101 
109 
a After deducting farmer's labor from farm income. 
b 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. 
For the five-year period the farms averaged 156 acres, with al- 
most one-fourth of the area in Avoodland and wasteland. The sur- 
face features being somewhat hilly or broken, only 43 acres per farm 
were used in producing crops, with about one-half of the farm area 
left for pasture land. Most of the crops were fed to the stock kept 
on these farms. There were 2.7 work horses per farm and other 
live stock equivalent to 14.9 horses or cows, cattle comprising more 
than one-half of all the productive live stock. 
The farms were worth about $30 per acre, and this, with the value 
of the live stock, machinery, etc., represented a farm investment of 
