34 BULLETIN 592, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Lesson 16. — Extensive v. Intensive Farming. 
1. Advantages and disadvantages of extensive farming. 
2. Advantages and disadvantages of intensive farming. 
3. Factors which determine a choice. 
Special references. — Articles in the following Yearbooks: 1902, Systems of Farm 
Management in the United States; 1905, Diversified Farming in the Cotton Belt; 
1908, Causes of Southern Rural Conditions and Small Farm as Important Remedy. 
The following Farmers' Bulletins: 472, Systems of Farming in Central New Jersey; 
519, Example of Intensive Farming in the Cotton Belt. 
Lesson 17. — A Study of Successful Farms — Local. 
1. The farm and what has been accomplished. 
2. Factors which have meant success. 
3. A local survey. 
Exercises 3-6. — Local Farm Surveys. 
Time equal to four double periods should be spent by the students 
in making an analysis of the home farm business under the direction 
of the teacher. Directions for this work and suitable forms will be 
found in Farmers' Bulletin 661, An Analysis of the Farm Business. 
The teacher may use some of the students in helping him make a 
general survey of the farms of the community. The results of such 
a survey will prove invaluable in adapting this course to the needs 
of the community. 
Lessox 18. — A Study of Successful Farms — General. 
1. The farm and what has been accomplished. 
2. Factors which have meant success. 
3. General farm surveys. 
Special references. — A Model Farm, Yearbook 1903. A Successful Dairy Farm, 
Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 102, part 2. The following Farmers' Bulletins: 
242, An Example of Model Farming; 272, A Successful Hog and Seed-corn Farm; 
280, A Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm; 310, A Successful Alabama Diversification 
Farm; 312, A Successful Southern Hay Farm; 355, A Successful Poultry and Dairy 
Farm; 264, A Profitable Cotton Farm. The following Department Bulletins: 32, An 
Example of Successful Farm Management in Southern New York; 41, A Farm- 
management Survey of Three Representative Areas in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa; 
341, Farm-management Practice of Chester County, Pa.; 492, An Economic Study 
of Farming in Sumter County, Ga. 
Problems. — It will be profitable to have the students work out 
problems in connection with many of the lessons to follow. Those 
given in Farm Management, by Boss, should be suggestive of others 
having local application. 
Lesson 19. — Farm Equipment. 
1. Relation of machinery to size of farm and type of farming. 
2. First costs and depreciation. 
3. Maintenance of equipment. 
Special references. — Minor Articles of Farm Equipment, Bureau of Plant Industry 
Circular 44. A Study of Farm Equipment in Ohio, Bureau of Plant Industry Bulle- 
tin 212. 
