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BULLETIN 648, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
acreages. However, they have an important place in the economy of 
the farm. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Brooks County has long been known for its live stock, particularly 
swine. The relative numbers of animal units 1 of the different 
classes of live stock found are shown in figure 7. Cattle constitute 
slightly more than half of the animal units, excluding work stock, 
while hogs make up more than nine-tenths of the remainder. Most 
of the farms keep a sufficient number of milk cows and poultry to 
supply the family needs, and in many cases a small surplus for sale 
on the local market ; but on none of the farms is dairying or poultry 
raising otherwise important, owing to the limited local market for 
such products. A number of farms in the county make a practice of 
feeding cattle, securing some of the feeders from the other farms in 
this and in adjoining counties, and shipping others in from Florida. 
Three such farms are included in this survey. 
ITEMS 
ANIMAL 
UNITS 
PER 
FARM 
ANIMAL UNITS PER FARM 
5 10 15 
2.0 
ALL LIVE STOCK 
CATT LE 
2 8.6 
1 2.2 
SWINE 
II. 1 
WORK STOCK 
4.4- 
poultry' 
.7 
1 
OTHERS 
.2 
Fig. 7. — Number of animal units per farm of different classes of live stock. 
On a very few farms colts are grown, but nearly all the work stock 
is shipped in from other States. Bees are kept on a number of farms, 
but on only 4 farms studied were they an important source of income. 
One farm kept sheep and several supported a few goats. 
The number of animal units of cattle carried slightly exceeds 
those of hogs, but the latter in reality occupy much the more im- 
portant place in the business of these farms, as is brought out in 
Table III. 
Table III. — Average value per animal unit of receipts from- cattle, hogs, and 
poultry (106 farms, Brooks County, Ga.). Receipts include sales, increased 
inventories, and products consumed in the farm home. 
Item. 
Cattle. 
Hogs. . 
Poultry. 
S9.6S 
9.73 
S3 7. 60 
ll.?0 
S42. 25 
19.41 
49.40 
9.88 
107.60 
a The equivalent of a 200-pound hog. 
It will be seen that hogs gave returns amounting to two and a half 
times as much per animal unit as did the cattle, or $49.40 as com- 
1 An animal unit is a mature cow or horse, or as many other animals as consume an 
equivalent amount of feed. Two colts or young 6tock, 5 hogs, 10 pigs, 7 sheep, or 100 
poultry constitute this unit, 
