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BULLETIN 941, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
and applied carefully, and a 3-to-4-year rotation followed. Most of the crops raised r 
except the wheat, were fed on the place. All calves were raised. Two litters of 
pigs were raised from 1 sow, one litter from the other sow, and the sale of these pigs 
furnished an especially good source of income. Income was derived from all other 
classes of live stock kept, with over 20 per cent of the total receipts from sales of 
crops. Both a good farm income and labor income were earned. The family labor 
on this farm, valued at S600, was done by the operator's daughters, who found the 
work both profitable and pleasant. (See Fig. 17.) This farm is well organized and 
unusually well diversified. 
FARM NO. 9. 
DISTRIBUTION 
OF FARM 
AREA. 
DISTRIBUTION 
OF CAPITAL. 
Crop area 
Woods and waste 
Pasture 
acres. 
do... 
do... 
do... 
. 122 
. 98 
. 91 
. 311 
. .. §10,260 
Live stock. 
Machinery and tools 
... 3,153 
673 
Feed and cash 
37& 
Total farm area . . . 
Total capital 
. .. 14,462 
ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROPS. 
NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK. 
Crop. 
Total 
yield. 
Acres. 
Class. 
Begin- 
ning of 
year. 
Pur- 
chased. 
Pro- 
duced. 
1,155 
385 
300 
20 
33 
29 
12 
30 
Corn bushels . . 
Cows 
13 
8 
9 
12 
6 
13 
Horses 
4 
2 
3 
29 
Mules , 
Colts 
2 
Ewes 
Lambs 
23 
4 
43 
Hogs 
44 
DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS. 
DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSES. 
Fource. 
Amount 
sold. 
Value. 
Hired labor 
Fami ly labor 
... S20 
... 180 
Repairs to machinerv 
... 35 
$329 
561 
12 
150 
372 
140 
466 
915 
40 
Repairs to building and fe 
Seed 
33 
... 32 
Winter wheat bushels . . 
Hay tons . . 
295 
1 
Fertilizer 
... 60 
... Ill 
Depreciation, buildings and machinery — 
Total expenses 
... 107 
Cattle 

Colts 
... 578 
2,985 
Farm income (difference between receipts a 
ud exper 
*2, 407 
723 
Labor income 
1.6S4 
This is a relatively large' farm, containing 213 acres of improved land. The live 
stock at the beginning of the year consisted of 13 cows and 23 other cattle; 6 horses 
and mules, 3 colts; 29 sheep and lambs; 4 brood sows and 43 pigs. The sale of hogs 
constituted the chief source of income, followed in the order named by. sale of crops, 
sheep, cattle, dairy products, colts, and poultry. Among the crops were 12 acres 
of cowpeas hogged off. Wheat was the important cash crop. The farm income and 
labor income earned were very satisfactory. 
