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About 83 per cent of the receipts were from crops, the remainder 
from live stock. 
There were 4 cows, 6 young stock, 4 horses 10 mules, 20 head of 
beef cattle, and 250 chickens on this farm. 
Crop yields were about 3 per cent above the average. 
On farms growing a large acreage of potatoes more work stock is 
kept than can be employed profitably throughout the year. This 
farm sold 4 mules after the potato crop was planted. When located 
near the city, the farmer may profitably employ work stock in hauling 
manure, and sometimes in public work, such as building roads, etc. 
On the whole, the stock enterprise is badly managed, since only a 
total of about $900 was received from this source, and yet these 
animals consumed produce from more than one-half the farm area and 
in addition $300 was spent for feed. 
The labor bill on this farm was $1,900. One hundred dollars 
went for manure and $700 for commercial fertilizer. 
FARM 6.— A 590-ACRE GENERAL MLXED FARM. 
Farm 6 is a large farm valued at $42 per acre and located about 20 
miles from Louisville. It is organized as a general mixed farm on 
which practically one-half of the receipts are from live stock. 
The business for 1914 showed: 
Total capital $29, 476 
Working capital 4, 400 
Animal units 50 
Total receipts 5, 400 
Total expenses 1, 900 
Receipts from live stock 1, 670 
Labor income 2, 000 
The income from crops sold was as follows : 
Com. 125 acres 863 
Wheat. 50 acres 950 
Stover 20 
Straw 200 
Alfalfa, 25 acres 240 
Timothy, 60 acres 270 
Tobacco 120 
The live stock on this farm were 4 cows, 3 head of young stock, 
137 sheep, 30 hogs, 9 horses and mules, and 5 colts. All these 
enterprises yielded some income, sheep yielding the highest. 
About 160 acres were devoted to permanent pasture and 150 acres 
were in woods, from which there was no income. 
Fifty acres of corn and 2 acres of tobacco were raised by a cropper, 
who got one-half of the crop. Crop yields were only 68 per cent of 
the average, and receipts per animal unit 89 per cent of the average. 
