FARM MANAGEMENT IN CLINTON COUNTY, INDIANA. 
15 
The bulk of the corn crop was harvested as grain, although the 
number of farms with silos increased from 1 in 1910 to 22 in 1919. 
Even with 22 silos, less than 5 per cent of the total corn acreage of 
the 100 farms was put into silos. The practice of " hogging off" 
corn gained in favor on a number of farms in the area. In 1910, 
not 1 of the 100 farms reported hogging off any corn. In 1913, 1 
farm reported hogging off about 10 per cent of the corn acreage; in 
1919, 22 of the 100 farms reported hogging off some of the corn, 
varying* on different farms from about 10 to almost 50 per cent of the 
corn acreages. 
A number of the farms, varying from 27 to 45 per cent for different 
years, fed all the corn they produced. (See Table 6.) Others sold 
part of their corn, varying from only a small percentage to almost 
the total production. The relatively large number in the 50 to 59 
per cent group was due to farms operated by tenants, where the 
landlord sold or removed his half share of the crop from the farm. 
Table 6. — Variations in per cent of corn sold as cash crop. 
Per cent of corn sold. 
Number of farms in 
1910 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
None 
43 
3 
6 
11 
6 
7 
16 
4 
1 
3 
35 
5 
5 
13 
3 
12 
7 
7 
5 
1 
41 
5 
6 
8 
10 
2 
16 
5 
5 
1 
1 
33 
7 
6 
9 
5 
7 
15 
8 
5 
3 
2 
27 
9 
15 
5 
7 
6 
13 
10 
3 
4 
1 
44 
7 
15 
9 
4 
12 
2 
45 
8 
6 
10 
6 
1 
17 
5 
2 
31 
lto9 
10tol9 
9 
20 to 29 
14 
30 to 39.- 
40 to 49 
5 
50 to 59 
21 
60to69 
4 
70 to 79... 
3 
80 to 89. __ 
1 
90 to 100 
Oats and wheat were the leading competitors for the use of the 
land in the small-grain part of the rotation, with oats occupying 
more of the land than wheat each year. (See Tables 1, and 7 to 10, 
inclusive.) Over this period, the average per-acre value of the 
production of oats was 24 per cent less than that of wheat. (See 
Table 11.) 
Table 7. — Variations in per cent of land in small grains. 
Per cent of land in small grains. 
Number of farms in 
- 
1910 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
None 
8 
8 
1 
26 
41 
15 
2 
7 
6 
5 
1 
9 
34 
32 
17 
2 
8 
6 
4 
lto4 
5t0l4 
5 
20 
43 
14 
7 
3 
6 
20 
38 
20 
9 
3 
19 
40 
24 
8 
8 
38 
34 
12 
5 
22 
35 
23 
6 
3 
6 
15 to 24. 
25 
25 to 34.. 
37 
35to44 
24 
45 to 54.. 
4 
55 to 64.... 
