12 BULLETIN 648, U. S, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
as here used not including products consumed on the farm. Hogs 
furnish the next largest returns, with 15.7 per cent of the total 
receipts, followed by oats and rye taken together, watermelons, corn, 
and cattle, these ranging in order from 6.1 per cent to 4.1 per 'cent 
of all receipts. But when the value of the products consumed in the 
farm home is added to the sales, the order is changed, hogs taking 
second place- followed tn^ cattle, corn, miscellaneous crops, oats and 
rye, and watermelons. The miscellaneous crops include in order of 
importance sweet potatoes, peanuts, Irish potatoes, cabbage, etc. 
Other and less important sources of receipts or increases of inven- 
tories of feed and supplies are poultry and eggs, sugar-cane sirup 
(see fig. 9), cowpea hay, receipts from miscellaneous sources, and 
live stock other than cattle, hogs, and poultry. The last named con- 
ITEMS 
T 0. 
n - 
< o 
c 
oil 
Hi 
I- t 
Z -lo 
* 200 400 
RECEIPTS PER FARM 
600 BOO 1000 * 
200 
COT TON 
SWINE 
*344 
413 
131 
50.2 
1ST 
1 
MmnBBBK^ 
CATT LE AND PRODUCTS 
1 16 
119 
44 
CORN 
148 
Zl 
56 
MISCELLANEOUS CROPS 
69 
96 
26 
■ESI3 
OATS AND RYE 
163 
~ 
6 1 
WATERMELONS 
.155 
6 
5.8 
feed and Supplies 
81 
~ 
30 
POULTRY AND EGGS 
30 
4G 
m 
SUGAR CANE AND SYRUP 
40 
•LA 
13 
E 
COWPEA HAY 
46 
- 
1.1 
MISCELLANEOUS RECPTS 
46 
- 
1.1 
OTHER L.IVE STOCK 
16 
2. 
6 
1 ■_. 
tCtlPTsO COHJUMIO m THt FABB KONl 
Fig. 8. — Sou 
rces 
Of i 
arm 
receipts and prod 
ucts consumed in the home. 
sists of sales of honey and a very few colts, sheep, and goats. The 
miscellaneous receipts come from labor performed off of the farm, 
sales of wood, lumber and turpentine rights, tolls from gristmills, 
and rents from farm buildings, balers, and thrashing machines. 
The value of swine products consumed in the farm home was 
found to equal nearly one-third as much as receipts from sales of 
such products. In the case of cattle, these two items were of almost 
identical value (see Table III), while the value of poultry products 
and of miscellaneous crops used on the farm greatly exceed the sales 
therefrom. 
The method of measuring the size of any enterprise by direct re- 
ceipts therefrom does not give the proper weight to the feed and pas- 
ture crops, the major part of which are consumed by the live stock 
on the farm. The total value of the crops grown is, for many pur- 
poses, a better measure, and when this measure is used the corn crop 
