FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE OZARKS. 
43 
The total year's income on this farm was only $94, while the expenses were $173. 
Not having raised any crops for sale, and having practically no live stock, he has no 
chance of making a farm income after paying the year's expenses and allowing the 
value of labor performed by his family. 
FARM NO. 2. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE FARM AREA. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL. 
Crop area acres. . 24 
Woods and waste do 19 
Pasture do 15 
Total farm area do 58 
Land and buildings $1, 800 
Live stock 392 
Machinery 162 
Feed and cash ! 80 
Total capital *. 2, 434 
ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROPS. 
NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK. 
Crop. 
Corn. 
Cane. 
.bushels., 
.gallons.. 
Total 
yield. 
500 
225 
Acres. 
Class. 
Cows 
Calves 
Horses 
Mules 
Sheep 
Brood sows. 
Hogs 
Poultry 
Begin- 
™f r °< chased. 
Pur- 
Pro- 
duced. 
DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS. 
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSES. 
Corn bushels . . 
Sorghum sirup gallons . . 
Sorghum seed 
Cattle 
Colts 
Sheep and wool 
Hogs 
Poultry and eggs 
Labor off farm 
Total receipts. 
Amount 
sold. 
267 
175 
Value. 
$336 
105 
70 
29 
90 
3 
443 
47 
20 
Repairs to machinery $10 
Repairs to building and fences 25 
Feed 50 
Other expenses 28 
Depreciation, machinery and buildings 37 
Total expenses . 
150 
1,143 
Farm income (difference between receipts and expenses) S993 
5 per cent interest on capital 122 
Labor income. 
This is a small farm situated on good upland soil. It is located in a section where 
an abundance of free range is available. Corn and sorghum were the only crops 
planted. The 4 acres of sorghum was used partly for sirup, and the rest for hay after 
thrashing the seed. The live stock consisted of 1 cow, 1 old mare, 2 mules, 1 sow, 
and 12 shotes, and a small flock of chickens. A calf was raised and sold, also a valuable 
mule colt. 
This farmer found the hog business quite profitable and increased his enterprise 
on his farm by the purchase of 2 sows and 9 shotes. The year's revenue from hogs was 
$443. The abundant pasturage available enabled the farmer to produce hogs mainly 
on the mast on the range, and the work stock and cow required very little feed in 
addition to pasture, with the result that 267 bushels of the corn was sold, also $105 
worth of sorghum sirup and $70 worth of sorghum seed. The expenses were not heavy. 
However, it should be noted that it was found necessary later to buy $50 worth of feed. 
