FAKM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 
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Profits which may be expected from the various classes of live 
stock vary from year to year, as prices and local conditions vary. 
In 1917 operators who were successful in raising hogs almost uni- 
formly showed a satisfactory farm income. There was a ready 
demand at high prices for all hogs offered for sale, an unusually 
heavy acorn and mast crop was produced in the woods, the feed 
cost was low for the majority of the hogs raised, and there was no 
general epidemic of hog cholera in the region. On the other hand, 
those operators who raised colts found little demand for them, and 
sales were made with difficulty and at a low price. The margin of 
farm profit contributed from year to year by the various enter- 
prises varies according to conditions governing production and mar- 
keting. An analysis of the receipts shows that cattle and hogs were 
the live stock which contributed the largest return on these farms. 
Fig. 11.— Type of dairy herds kept for production of cream. 
The profitable production of cattle in this region depends upon 
grazing to furnish the bulk of feed required during the summer, 
with sufficient grain and hay raised on the farm to maintain them 
during the winter. The bulk of the cattle sales are in the late sum- 
mer directly off the pastures, though an occasional farmer produces 
sufficient corn for feeding out a bunch of cattle during the winter. 
Cream is also being sold from this country in increasing volume. 
(See fig. 11.) 
CREAM PRODUCTION. 
This territory is well provided with a market for cream, creameries 
being located at a number of the more important railway stations, 
and a few operating at interior points. Practically every little 
village has one or more cream-receiving stations. It is difficult to 
overstate the help this has been to many farmers, particularly to 
those operators of only moderate-sized farms to whom the steady 
