FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 
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ries, pears, cherries, milo maize, buckwheat, rape, spelt, Egyptian 
wheat, and broom corn grown, more or less, in small acreages. Pota- 
toes were found on most of the farms, and so also was sorghum for 
sirup, practically every farm having a small acreage of these two 
crops for home use, the amount raised in excess of home require- 
ments being disposed of on local markets. Double cropping is not 
practiced to any considerable extent. 
The yields obtained during the year of the survey were normal for 
a good season. 
PASTURE. 
While the free range still furnishes the greater part of the pasture, 
increasing attention is being given to pasture on the farm. Pasture 
on the farm consists of crop land pastured according to the rotation 
outlined above, and fenced woods and other land not suitable for 
crops on which pasture grasses have been planted or the growth of 
the native grasses encouraged. The farm area pastured does not 
furnish a measure of the pasture utilized by the farms, for the reason 
that practically every operator to a greater or less degree utilized the 
pasturage on the range in addition to his farm pasturage. 
CROP PRODUCTION AND YIELDS. 
In Table IV are shown the yields per acre and the production and 
sales of the more important crops per farm. On the hilly farms a 
small amount of a number of crops are sold, while on the valley and 
level-upland farms most of the crop sales are from corn and wheat. 
The yields are considerably better on the valley farms. 
Table IV. — Yield per acre and amount and value of sales of crops reported by operators 
of farms from which records were obtained. 
Rolling and hilly farms (31 farms). 
Valley and level-upland farms 
(48 farms). 
Crop. 
Yield 
per 
acre. 
Total 
produc- 
tion per 
farm. 
Sales per farm. 
Yield 1 T °, taI 
'l ia produc- 
P?J tionper 
acre - farm. 
Sales per farm. 
Amount. 
Value. 
Amount. 
Value. 
Corn for grain bushels. . 
Wheat do 
Rye do 
Oats do . 
23 
10 
8 
24 
.6 
58 
358 
50 
6 
51 
8.3 
32 
22 
16 
2 
8 
.2 
13 
323 
36 
3 
6 
2 
12 
46 
26 
17 
32 
12 
17 
25 
.7 
94 
667 
123 
24 
128 
12 
19 
65 
87 
8 
15 
1 
10 
$89 
175 
9 
11 
Timothy and clover tons. . 
Sorghum sirup gallons. . 
18 
7 
24 
Apples 
7 
3 
3 
Total 
171 
333 
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