FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 
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necessity. Expenses included in " other expense" in the table are 
such as feed grinding, horse-shoeing, breeding fees, veterinary fees, 
stock medicine, twine, thrashing, other machine work hired, and 
similar small miscellaneous items. 
Table VI. — Distribution oj expenses on 31 rolling and hilly j arms and 48 valley and 
level-upland Jarms. Ozark region, Missouri. 
Crop. 
Hired labor 
Family labor 
Repairs, machinery 
Repairs, buildings and fences 
Feed bought 
Seed bought 
Fertilizer bought 
Other expenses 
Depreciation on machinery and buildings . . 
Total 
Rolling and hilly farms. 
Under 40 crop acres 
(16 farms). 
Ex- 
penses. 
260 
2.3 
31.5 
3.5 
6.2 
19.2 
5.8 
.4 
17.3 
13.8 
100.0 
40 crop acres and 
over (15 farms). 
Ex- 
penses. 
$N3 
351 
26 
43 
64 
40 
18 
93 
81 
799 
Per cent. 
10.4 
43.9 
3.3 
5.4 
8.0 
5.0 
2.3 
11.6 
10.1 
100.0 
All farms (31). 
Ex- 
penses. 
$43 
212 
17 
29 
57 
27 
58 
Per cent. 
8.2 
40.7 
3.3 
5.6 
10.9 
5.2 
1.7 
13.3 
11.1 
100.0 
Valley and level. 
Crop. 
Under 40 crop acres 
(12 farms). 
40 to 70 crop acres 
(21 farms). 
70 crop acres and 
over (15 farms). 
All farms (48). 
Ex- 
penses. 
Per cent. 
Ex- 
penses. 
Per cent. 
Ex- 
penses. 
Per cent. 
Ex- 
penses. 
Per cent. 
$22 
205 
12 
25 
29 
11 
9 
56 
45 
5.3 
49.5 
2.9 
6.0 
7.0 
2.7 
2.2 
13.5 
10.9 
$61 
248 
21 
36 
79 
31 
12 
96 
86 
9.1 
37.0 
3.1 
5.4 
11.8 
4.6 
1.8 
14.3 
12,9 
$286 
377 
35 
69 
55 
43 
19 
190 
105 
24.2 
32.0 
3.0 
5.9 
4.7 
3.6 
1.6 
16.1 
8.9 
$121 
278 
23 
44 
59 
30 
13 
115 
82 
15 8 
Family labor 
36 3 
Repairs, machinery . . 
Repairs, buildings 
and fences 
3.0 
5.8 
Feed bought 
7.7 
Seed bought 
3.9 
Fertilizer bought 
Other expenses 
Depreciation on ma- 
chinery and build- 
ings 
1.7 
15.1 
10.7 
Total 
414 100.0 
670 
100.0 
1,180 
100.0 
765 
• 100.0 
During the year covered by the records it was not necessary for 
the Ozark farmers to buy a great amount of feed, that purchased 
consisting mainly of concentrates for winter feeding and feed bought 
in the early spring to carry stock until the harvest. However, in 
drought years the purchase of feed becomes a necessary and heavy 
expense, the only alternative being to sell the stock, and many farmers 
who live long distances from a shipping point have sometimes found 
it necessarv to do this. 
