MANAGEMENT OF GENERAL FARMS IN OREGON. 7 
productive animals kept on these farms. Work horses, it must be 
remembered, are not considered productive animals. Sheep stood 
second in importance on the clay farms, and hogs on the silt loam 
farms. The clay farms kept relatively less stock than the silt loam 
KIND OF 
ANIMAL 
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ss 
SALEM 
68 
CLAY FARMS 
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tss 
144- SALEM 
SILT LOAM FARMS 
DAIRY COWS 
BULLS 
YOUNG CATTLE. 
STEERS 
HORSE'S 
COLTS 
GOATS 
SHEEP 
HOGS 
POULTRY 
4.2 
.2 
2.8 
5.1 
1.6 
2.0 
25.6 
11.5 
134.1 
2.28 
.75 
.20 
2.17 
.44 
.15 
1.56 
.99 
.77 
4.6 
.3 
2.8 
(a) 
4.7 
1.4 
3.0 
12.5 
17.1 
132.4 
3.59 
0.21 
• 1.13 
04 
3.52 
£4 
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1.15 
2.18 
1.03 
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Fig. 2.— Number of animal units per 100 acres of improved land and number of animals per farm on 212 
farms in Marion and Polk Counties, Oreg. (1912). 
farms. The total animal units kept per 100 acres of improved land 
on the clay farms were 10.02, as compared with 13.77 on the silt 
loam farms. These are very low complements of live stock. In 
other words, live stock on these farms was kept as a side line to cash- 
crop farming. 
SOURCE. 
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68 
s£ 
i E 
144 SALEM 
OF 
INCOME 
i s 
£ D £ 
SALEM CLAY FARMS 
U 
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SILT LOAM FARMS 
OATS 
WHEAT 
POTATOES 
HAY 
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482 
70 
38 
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23.6 
3.4 
1.9 
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168 
173 
17.2 
12.9 
1.4 
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FRUIT 
15 
-7 
1 
23 
1.0 
1 
CLOVER SEED 
MISC. CROPS 
DAIRY CATTLE 
14 
234 
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0.6 
11.5 
1 
231 
44 
327 
10. 1 
2.0 
14.3 
BgnraM 
HORSES 
166 
8.3 
96 
4.2 
POULTRY 
129 
6.3 
130 
5.7 
Sheep 
103 
5.0 
53 
2.3 
H06S 
93 
4.5 
156 
6.8 
STEERS 
S 
0.4 
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Z 
0.1 
i 
GOAT& 
5 
0.2 
1 
4 
0.1 
1 
INCREASE FEED 
AND SUPPLIES 
37 
1.8 
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81 
3.5 
MISC. RECEIPTS 
78 
3.8 
109 
4.8 
Fig. 3.— Percentage of receipts and amounts received from different sources on 212 farms in Marion and 
Polk Counties, Oreg. (1912). 
RELATION OF SOURCES OF INCOME TO TYPE OF FARMING. 
The percentage of receipts from different sources for the two types 
of soil are shown in figure 3. The clay farms received 58.2 per cent 
of their receipts from the sale of crops, and the silt loam farms 58.1 
per cent. The clay farms, it will be observed, received practically 
