FARM MANAGEMENT IN SUMTER COUNTY, GA. 57 
Did the farms with the high yields grow « greater diversity of 
crops than those with the low yields? 
With the exception of the large-size group of farms, the data show 
about the same percentage of the crop acreage in cotton for the farms 
with the high yields as for those with the low yields. However, on 
the farms with the high yields a greater percentage of the crop land 
was utilized in growing second and interplanted crops, thus effecting 
greater diversification without cutting down the cotton acreage. 
While the farmers with the high yields devoted no greater propor- 
tion of their acreage to growing crops other than cotton than the 
farmers with low yields, yet they had more crop acres, and with the 
advantage of higher yields were able to sell more of all kinds of 
crops and more live stock and live-stock products. 
Did the farmers with high yields of cotton give less attention to 
growing home supplies, thus making it necessary to expend more 
cash for the family living than those with low yields? 
No. The farmers with high yields of cotton not only sold more 
cotton and more products other than cotton, but they produced more 
for family use than those with low yields. On the high-yielding 
farms the family living from the farm was valued at over $100 more 
per farm than on low-yielding farms of similar size, and on the large 
farms with high yields more than twice as much was produced for 
family living as on the small farms with low yields. 
Did the farmers with high yields make their gains by spending less 
money than those with low yields or by making the money expended 
count for more per dollar in the operation of their business? 
The data show that for each size group of farms and for both 
years the farmers with the good yields spent more money in the 
operation of their farms, often 50 per cent more per acre, than the 
farmers with the low yields. This difference in expense was largely 
for labor and fertilizer. The farmers with the good yields had rela- 
tively less expense for feed. Justification for the increased expense 
may be found by comparing the percentage of receipts required for 
expenses for the various groups of farms shown in Tables 30 and 
31. The operators of the most profitable farms, small, medium, or 
large, having the largest business turnover and having increased 
their receipts in greater proportion than their expenses, received the 
largest returns as pay for their own labor and management and inter- 
est on capital. 
Did the farmers on poorly organized farms with low earnings value 
their own labor as high as those on the better-organized farms wath 
more satisfactory earnings? 
No. The operators of the farms with the low yields valued their 
own labor and management lower than those with the high yields. 
