A: BULLETIN 694, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
income per animal unit are important factors which materially influ- 
ence the incomes derived from the farms of this section. 
INCOME PER COW. 
On farms devoted largely to dairying, perhaps there is no other 
one factor of such great importance and none with so direct a bearing Ps. 
on labor income as the income per cow. In practically all of the © 
studies of this character which have been made, this fact stands out 
with great prominence. In the survey of Chester County, Pennsyl- 
vania, for instance, the Income per cow was shown definitely to be 
one of the more important factors of success on the dairy farms of 
that section. A table showing the figures in this connection are 
given in United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 341, 
page 77. In a similar manner, also, the data gathered in the study 
of Lenawee County, Michigan, show that labor income on dairy farms 
of that section bears a direct relation to Income per cow. 
TABLE XV.—RKelation of receipts per caw to labor income, 212 owner-farms, Lenawee. 
County, Mich. 
Having 5 or more cows. 
Receipts per cow. Neer Eras Average | Average | Average 
Mea ber of size of | receipts labor 
ss farms. | per cow. | income. 
SAORATIANESS Ra seeps rs, ee Aen UI Nae A ey aie eh pene 38 8 113 $29 $245 
SAMO S50 Cee ee es SC 95 aes COATS ee 37 9 104 46 361 
SSIES OULU tenn cet Gesle |e i Give Ss Reh ae 35 10 132 EG 401 
SEL CO GTORED le LE ee CaO eee a 37 9 105 65 542 
STISEOISOO Oe eR RE aie a ae 41 rl 133 79 915 
Over Goose 2 ed cee ew 30 he Aen See 24 10 113 105 1,053 - 
TNS Ne SHIGE RSE i Sd tata oe ENDOCR A RLM oh 212 9 | 117 61 564 
In Table XV is shown the relation of receipts per cow to labor 
income on the owner-farms covered in this study. The 38 farms 
with average receipts of $29 per cow made an average labor income 
of $245 per farm; the 37 farms with receipts ranging from $40 to 
$50 and averaging $46 per cow made an average labor income of 
$361; the 35 farms with average receipts of $56 per cow made an 
average labor income of $401; the 37 farms with average receipts 
of $65 per cow made an average labor income of $542; the 41 farms 
having average receipts of $79 per cow made an average labor 
income of $915; while the 24 farms with average receipts of $105 
per cow made an average labor income of $1,053. Throughout this 
table the figures show a constant increase in the average labor 
income when the average receipts per cow increase. There was 
only a small variation in the ‘different groups of the number of cows 
per farm. 
