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BULLETIN 941, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
All the labor on this farm was performed by the operator himself, and for the year's 
labor the farmer had $871 after paying all expenses and allowing 5 per cent interest 
on the capital invested. 
FARM NO. 3. 
DISTRIBUTION OF FARM AREA. 
DISTRIBUTION OF CAPITAL. 
Crop area acres . . 95. 5 
Woods and waste do 36.5 
Pasture do 51. 
Total do .... 183. 
Land and buildings §5, 000 
Live stock 1, 546 
Machinery 443 
Feed and cash 333 
Total 7,322 
ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROPS. 
NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK. 
Crop. 
Corn 
Potatoes 
Wheat 
Rye 
Oats 
Hay 
Apples (in pasture). 
Garden 
.bushels.. 
....do.... 
....do.... 
....do.... 
,...do.... 
tons.. 
Total 
yield. 
555 
85 
L65 
10 
102 
28 
Acres. 
Class. 
22 
1.5 
15 
.75 
5 
50 
18 
1.25 
Cows 
Heifers 
Calves 
Bulls 
Steers 
Horses 
Sheep 
Lambs 
Brood sows. 
Hogs 
Begin- 
ning of 
year. 
Pur- 
chased. 
Pro- 
duced. 
DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS. 
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSES. 
Source. 
Potatoes bushels. 
Wheat do . . . 
Oats do. . . 
Apples 
Corn bushels. 
Hay 
Cattle 
Dairy products 
Colts 
Sheep and wool 
Swine 
Total receipts. 
Amount 
sold. 
Value. 
$9 
136 
41 
20 
105 
23 
635 
133 
50 
147 
Hired labor 
Family labor 
Repairs to machinery 
Repairs to building and fences . 
Feed 
$67 
600 
33 
32 
270 
Seed 46 
Fertilizer 40 
Other expenses 102 
Depreciation, machinery and buildings 74 
Total expenses 1, 264 
§1,785 
Farm income (difference between receipts and expenses) $521 
5 per cent interest on capital 366 
Labor income 155 
This is one of the larger. upland farms with a rolling topography. It was poorly 
organized, as will be observed by a study of the acreage and production of crops, 
amount and returns from live stock, the size of the feed bill, and the amount of both 
man and horse labor used. Quite a large area was in meadow hay. Eighteen acres 
of apples had also been planted, but the trees were being allowed to die out, and the 
acreage last year was cut for meadow hay. Quite a large amount of live stock was 
kept. Cattle sales amounted to $635, and furnished the largest single source of income, 
with hogs, $486, the next largest. Revenue was also obtained from dairy products, 
colts raised, sheep, wool, crops and fruit. 
If this farmer were to pay his family the value of their year's work at $600 and pay 
interest on his investment at 5 per cent he would have left for his own year's labor 
