BULLETIN OF THE 
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No. 32 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief 
November 22, 1913. 
AN EXAMPLE OF SUCCESSFUL FARM MANAGEMENT 
IN SOUTHERN NEW YORK. 
By M. C. Bureitt, Assistant Agriculturist, and John H. Barron, 1 Agent, Office 
of Farm Management. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Most farm problems present several aspects. There must be a 
proper adjustment of the crops to the soil and environment and the 
proper balance between farm animals, food supply, and physical 
environment. The first two phases have received much well-merited 
Fig. 1. — The farmstead of M. J. English, showing the clean condition of the grounds and 
the macadam road in front of the buildings. 
attention, but the proper balance between crops and animals and 
the economic adjustment of both these factors to production and 
marketing have been left to work themselves out. It is particularly 
because Mr. M. J. English, of Broome County, N. Y., has so suc- 
cessfully solved these important problems of farm management that 
the example of his farming is valuable. The type of farming which 
1 Employed cooperatively by this department, the New York State College of Agriculture, 
the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- 
road at time when this was written. 
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