UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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BULLETIN No. 941 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and 
Farm Economics 
H. C.TAYLOR, Chief 
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Washington, D. C. 
April 8, 1921 
FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARK REGION OF 
MISSOURI. 
A STUDY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF A NUMBER OF 
REPRESENTATIVE FARMS. 
By H. M. Dixon, Associate Fa?in Economist, and J. M. Puedom, Scientific 
Assistant . 
CONTENTS. 
Introduction 1 
Summary , 1 
Location and character of the area 3 
Farm business and income 12 
Farm investment 15 
Crops 17 
Crop production and yields 19 
Farm receipts 20 
Farm expenses 20 
Crop management 22 
Live-stock management 28 
Pasture 31 
The organization and profits of individual 
farms 40 
INTRODUCTION. 
This bulletin is based on a study of the organization and management 
of 79 farms distributed in five counties in the southern and south- 
eastern Ozark region of Missouri. Thirty-one of these farms are 
representative of the conditions of rolling and hilly upland farms: 
the other 48 are more representative of the conditions on the valley 
and level-upland farms. Throughout the bulletin these two classes 
of farms are treated separately. 
Data are presented on size of farms, distribution of farm area, 
capital, receipts and expenses, and the returns in farm income and 
labor income. The first part of the bulletin treats of the findings 
largely from the standpoint of the area as a whole, and the latter 
part is devoted to the consideration of representative individual 
farms, with a view of emphasizing some of the outstanding factors 
contributing to success or failure. 
SUMMARY. 
Topographical structure to a large extent determines the agricul- 
tural value of the land. The southern and eastern Ozark region of 
Missouri is a mountainous plateau, predominantly rough and rocky, 
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