FAKM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 
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only two made $1,000 or over, and six earned no cash labor income 
and less than 5 per cent on the capital invested. As previously 
pointed out, each farmer had, in addition to his labor income and 
interest on investment, house rent, home-grown food products, and 
fuel furnished by the farm, factors that contribute considerably to 
the family living. 
The labor income data shown in this figure and in the following 
data for 10 individual farms serve to emphasize the variation in 
LABOR 
INCOME 
IN DOLLARS 
_JL 
L . L 
r 
f IT ' 
^-=--^ 
■■ 
50 S 
u 
100 ■* 
0. 

150 a. 
U 
■ ~^_ 
. 
LABOR 
INCOME 
IN DOLLARS 
3000 
2000 
lOOO 
-IOOO 
H ™ — HE — 1~~™ _ ^ ^ 
50 g 
U 
ioo ■* 
a. 
O 
'50 ct 
u 
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^ 
B 
T^G. 16.— Relation of size of farm to labor income. (A, 48 valley and level-upland farms; B, 31 rolling and 
hilly upland farms.) Each bar represents the labor income of one farm, beginning at the left with the 
smallest farm. 
returns within a year. Some farmers are making good labor incomes, 
while others fail to receive anything for their year's wages above the 
supplies furnished the family by the farm. In farming, as in any 
other occupation, the more satisfactory returns are for those who 
practice the best methods. The wide range in labor income as shown 
by a study of each farm gives evidence that the man of skill, indus- 
try, and good judgment is the one who receives the highest rewards 
in operating a farm. 
