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operator are increased through its use. Figure 20 shows for the 
year 1919 a comparison of the average net income per farm operator 
by States with the horsepower-hours of power utilized per hour of 
human labor. Data with respect to income of farmers by States are 
Value of Crops per AgncuJfural Worker* 
$500 $1.000 $1.500 
$^000 
United States.. 
Afabama 
M/ss/ssippi. 
3outh Carolina.. 
Georgia. 
JYortn Carolina.. 
Arkansas 
Tennessee 
Louisiana 
/(entuc/<y. 
Florida. 
Virginia 
West Virginia. . _ 
Texas 
Ma/ne 
New Mexico 
Delaware 
l^ermont 
Oklahoma 
New Hampshire. 
Maryland. 
Rhode Island.... 
Missouri 
Connecticut 
Michigan 
Utah:... 
Indiana 
New York 
Ohio 
Wisconsin 
Pennsyli/ania. . 
Massachusetts 
New Jersey.... 
Arizona 
Minnesota 
Oregon 
Washington... 
Illinoist 
A/eyada 
Colorado 
Idaho... 
California 
lowa._ 
Wyoming 
Kansas. 
Nebraska... 
Montana 
North Dakota. 
South Dakota. ..... 
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Total Primary Horsepower per Agricultural Worker 
Fig. 18. — Relation between primary horsepower and value of crops produced per worker. 
value 1919-1923 average 
15 
20 
Crop 
available for the year 1919 only, and as seasonal conditions no doubt 
affect the income of farmers very materially, some discrepancies are 
unavoidable when incomes for only one year are used;^ but in gen- 
8 Conditions in 1919 were not normal, as Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas were particularly un- 
fortunate in having very poor crop jaelds, which accounts, at least partly, for their poor showing in these 
graphs, whereas the very high price of cotton in 1919 probably gives the income of farmers in the cotton- 
growing States a relatively higher net value than would have occurred under normal conditions. 
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