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BULLETIN 941, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
CROP MANAGEMENT. 
More records were obtained of farms having a small number of 
acres cropped than of farms having a large number. Among the 
upland farms in this region there seem to be many more small than 
large farms, largely because of the topography and the limited 
financial means of many of the operators. The labor incomes earned 
indicate that the operators of the large farms have an increasing 
advantage over the operators of small farms. In Table VII is 
shown the acreage on the various farms devoted to growing different 
crops. On all the farms, of course, the topography and the stone 
content of the soil, as well as the scarcity of labor, influence the 
number of acres that can be devoted to crops. From this table it 
is seen that the farms having under 40 acres of crops had consider- 
ably smaller acreage devoted to each of the various crops than did 
the farms having a larger area of land cropped. 
Table VII. — Number of /arms reporting major crops, by acreages grown. 
ROLLING AND HILLY FARMS. 
Farms having under 40 
acres of cropped land. 
Farms having over 40 
acres of cropped land. 
All farms reporting. 
Number of acres reported. 
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2 
2 
3 
5 
4 
14 
1 
1 
11 
5 
8 
3 
1 
3 
1 
7 
6 
3 
4 
5 
6 
4 
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3 
.... 
4 
1 
2 
4 
6 
2 
2 
...... 
2 
2 
3 
8 
9 
6 
1 
1 
18 
1 
5 
4 
3 
16 
11 
4 
11 11 
1-5 
3 12 
6-10 
"3" 
5 
6 
1 
1 
4 
4 
3 
2 5 
11-15 . . 
7 , 2 
16-20 
2 
21-25 
2 1 
26-30... 
31-35 . . 
36-40 
41-45 
46-50 
3 
1 
3 
Over 50 
1 
1 
VALLEY AND LEVEL-UPLAND FARMS. 
9 
2 
1 
6 
3 
3 
6 
2 
3 
1 
8 
1 
3 
1 
1 
3 
11 
6 
2 
3 
3 
2 
12 
1 
5 
5 
4 
5 
2 
12 
n 
5 
4 
2 
1 
1 
6 
1 
4 
5 
3 
3 
2 
1 
1 
1 
2 
22 
4 
6 
3 
1 
1 
2 
6 
13 
10 
4 
3 
3 
2 
21 
3 
6 
5 
4 
5 
2 
IS 
14 
8 
4 
2 
1 
1 
12 
3 
7 
6 
3 
3 
7 
2 
1 
1 
1 
2 
30 
1-5 
1 
3 
2 
4 
2 
5 
6-10 
9 
11-15 
3 
16-20 
1 
21-25 
26-30 
31-25 
36-40 
1 
1 
41^5 
, 
46-50 
2 
2 
1 
2 
2 
1 
Over 50 
Oats, kafir, millet, and sorghum crops are utilized as auxiliary 
sources of feed, and the feed requirements of the farms determine 
the acreage devoted to these crops. These crops were grown more 
frequently on the hilly farms. 
