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BULLETIN 9H, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In the following analysis of the business of 10 individual farms, 
opportunity is afforded for a study of the factors which determined 
their success or failure for the year. Along with the analysis of 
each farm business is a brief discussion of the farm considered. 
Each farm here analyzed is deserving of careful study. 1 
FARM NO. ,1. 
DISTRIBUTION OF FARM AREA. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL. 
Crop area 
Woods and waste 
Pasture 
Total farm area 
acres.. 
do... 
do... 
...do... 
. 23 
. 10 
. 7 
. 40 
Land and buildings 
Live stock 
Machinery 
Feed and" cash 
Total capital 
$500 
165 
57 
250 
972 
ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROP. 
NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK. 
Crop. 
Total 
yield. 
Acres. 
Class. 
Begin- 
ning of 
year. 
Pur-* 
chased. 
Pro- 
duced. 
...bushels.. 
do.... 
tons.. 
...bushels.. 
110 
35 
3 
■ 40 
12 
6 
3.75 
.50 
Corn 
Rye 
Cows 
Calves 
" 1 
2 
2 
1 
1 
Potatoes 
Horses 
2 
Fruit 
. 75 Brood sows 
1 
1 
Hogs 
6 
DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS. 
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSES. 
Source. 
Amount 
sold. 
Value. 
Family labor 
... $100 
... 13 
Seed 
Other expenses 
Depreciation, machinery and buildings.... 
Total expenses 
... 2S 
Corn 
Cattle 
..bushels.. 
15 
$22 
35 
37 
... 14 
... 18 
... ITS 
94 
Farm income (difference between receipts and expenses) —$79" 
5 per cent interest on capital 49 
Labor income (loss) — 12S 
Farm Xo. 1 is a small farm in a rough and rocky section. This farm gives an illus- 
tration of the hardships and difficulties which confront an inexperienced operator 
with limited means attempting to establish a small farm on the poorer upland soils 
of this region. 
This operator bought his farm in 1908. using practically all of his money in the 
purchase of the 40 acres. In the 10 years following he suffered disaster a number of 
times, from crop failure due to drought and from loss of live stock. Being a mechanic, 
he returned to St. Louis after each disaster and worked until he had accumulated 
enough money to purchase more work horses and supplies. In this way. he has spent 
4 of the 10 years preceding 1918 in St. Louis, his wife and two small children living 
on the farm in his absence, but unable to do much farming. He had worked the 
greater part of 1916 in St. Louis, and, as he said, returned for the fifth start. At the 
beginning of the farm year covered by this study he had live stock consisting of 1 
cow and 2 horses. He spent four months out of the year in St. Louis and with his 
savings purchased for $215, 2 cows, 2 calves, and 2 hogs. 
1 The first five of these farms are rolling and hilly farms, an J the next five are valley and level-upland 
farms. 
