UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1258 
Washington, D. C. 
October 17, 1924 
FARM ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT IN CLINTON COUNTY, 
INDIANA. 
A BUSINESS ANALYSIS OF 100 FARMS, IN FOREST AND JOHNSON TOWNSHIPS, 
FOR EIGHT YEARS— 1910, AND 1913 TO 1919, INCLUSIVE. 
By H. W. Hawthorne, Associate Agricultural Economist; and H. M. Dixon, Farm 
Economist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Description of area 2 
Definition of terms 3 
Organization and management of 100 farms.. 4 
Livestock production 20 
Work animals 25 
Man labor 26 
Farm capital 28 
Farm receipts 30 
Page. 
Farm expenses 34 
Farm earnings 35 
Quantities of products sold 42 
Prices received for products 42 
Acres, crop yields per acre, etc 43 
Farm tenure 50 
Summary 66 
This bulletin presents data from a business analysis of 100 farms 
in Forest and Johnson Townships, Clinton County, Ind., over a 
period of eight years. The first year's study was in 1910; and the 
work was again taken up for the year 1913 and continued seven 
successive years to 1919, inclusive. 1 
In 1914 the investigation covering the farm business year, March 
1, 1913, to March 1, 1914, was resumed in the Indiana area, to be 
carried over a number of successive years. The World War soon 
affected the prices received for American agricultural products and 
the cost of operating American farms. The investigation covering 
more than one year after the signing of the armistice therefore has 
1 The work in this area was begun by E. H. Thomson for the year 1910. In addition to the authors, 
the following investigational force assisted in one or more years of this study: H. F. Williams, O. S. Ray- 
ner, E. M. McGrew, E. L. Currier, C. Wentsel, W. C. Funk, E. D. Strait, F. H. Shelledy, C. C. Taylor, 
H. R. Smalley, H. N. Humphrey, J. C. Rundles, T. H. Summers, W.I. Myers, Charles E. Miller, A. P. 
Brodeil, R. D. Jennings, Frank Montgomery, and Bruce McKinley, Office of Farm Management; and 
W. L. Elser, Lynn Robertson, and W. W. Syh ester, of the Indiana Experiment station. Some resulst 
of the first year of this study were published, with similar investigations in Cass and Menard Counties. 
Ill, and Greene and Guthrie Counties, Iowa, in Department of Agriculture Bulletin 41 (Thomson and 
Dixon); and of the first seven years in Department of Agriculture Bulletin 920 (Dixon and Hawthorne), 
This study for each year is for the farm year, March 1 to March 1, The method used in this farm busi- 
ness analysis is described in Farmers' Bulletin 1139. 
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