BULLETIN 553, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table I. — Summary of the farm business of 159 dairy farms and 190 general farms. 
Grove City. Pa., area. 1916. 
arm area, 
•area.. 
Crop! 
ilonths of man labor 
Number of productive animal units 
Number of -work stock 
Investment. 
Receipts 
Expenses. . . 
Farm income 
Interest on investment at 5 per cent. 
Labor income 
Value of farmer's labor. . . 
Per cent on investment 3 . 
Farm income 
Value of unpaid family labor 
Family income 3 
Interest paid on indebtedness 
Amount available for family living and savin;; 
Dairv 
General 
farms 
farms 
(159). 
(190). 
Aver aae. 
Averaoe. 
97 
104 
-^ 
48 
17 
16 
15 
13 
3 
3 
SS, 112 
$7,252 
1,366 
1,135 
681 
4S2 
6S5 
653 
406 
■;62 
279 
291 
S356 
$316 
4.1 
4.7 
S6S5 
?653 
102 
67 
7S7 
720 
14 
6 
773 
714 
1 Inncludes all stock except work stock. 
2 After deducting farmer's labor from farm income. 
3 The sum of farm income and value of unpaid family labor, or the amount available for family living 
and savings had there been no interest to pay. 
Fig. 5.— Farmstead of typical dairy farm of the better class. 
Iii Table I is given a summary of the farm business of 159 dairy 
and 190 general farms. From this summary can be drawn some 
comparisons of the size of farm, crop area, amount of labor, amount 
of live stock, capital, receipts, expenses, and profits. All these 
factors are of vital importance to those operating farms of these 
types and those contemplating farming under conditions such as 
exist here. 
The average farm income, which represents the difference between 
the total receipts and total expenses, was S6S5 on the dairy farms 
and $653 on the general farms. In the expenses a sum is included 
for the value of the labor performed on the farm by the farmer's 
family, which averaged 8102 on the dairv farms and S67 on the 
