FARMING ON CUT-OVER LANDS. 
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receipts from the sale of dairy products. This plan, known from its 
place of origin as the " Ashland Plan/' is attended with some risk to 
those who guarantee the loans, but in most instances it appears to 
have met with considerable success. When well managed, it has 
helped materially to improve the quality of the dairy cattle. 
As the country develops, more money will become available for 
the improvement of dairy herds. This improvement could be greatly 
hastened now at moderate expense by securing better bulls. Some 
owners of dairy farms in this district keep first-class cows. These 
men are making money. On a few such farms the herd bulls are 
of excellent quality and breeding. For this district probably the 
next most important problem after increasing tillable area is the 
securing of more and better cows. (See fig. 8.) 
Fig. 8. — Dairy herd on pasture in cut-over district. 
INFLUENCE OF CROP YIELDS ON LABOR INCOME. 
Table 8 shows the relation existing between crop yields and in- 
comes. The family income is $193 higher, and the labor income 
$123 higher on the 355 farms that have crop yields above the average 
than on the other 446 farms. 
Table 8. — Income as affected by crop yields. 
[Average of 801 farms.] 
Range of crop yields 
(percent)'. 1 
Number 
of farms. 
Average 
crop 
yields. 
Farm 
area. 
Crop 
area. 
Family 
income. 
Family 
labor 
income. 
Farm 
income. 
Labor 
income. 
Above 100 
355 
446 
Per cent. 
119 
83 
Acres. 
107.8 
107.6 
Acres. 
49.30 
48.77 
$666 
473 
$292 
156 
$491 
312 
$118 
36 
.2 
.53 
193 
136 
179 
123 
1 Average yields of all farms taken as 100 per cent. 
