A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS. 
BREED OF COWS. 
Table III. — Breed of coivs. 
Item. 
84 Green County, 
"Wis., farms. 
Number 
of farms. 
Per cent 
of all 
farms. 
59 Kane County, 
111., farms. 
Number 
of farms. 
Per cent 
of all 
farms. 
Farms having all pure-bred cows (all Holstein) 
Farms having part pure-bred cows I 
Farms having grade Holstein cows i 62 
Farms having cows of mixed grade 10 
Farms having pure-bred bulls 46 
Farms having pure-bred Holstein bulls i 43 
From Table III it is seen that on a few of the farms of the Wis- 
consin group the cows are all pure bred, while on none of those of 
the Illinois group are they all pure bred. The dominant breed of 
cow in both regions is the Holstein and more than half of the farms 
in the groups from each State have pure-bred Holstein bulls. 
SOURCES OF INCOME. 
The regions in which these records were taken are distinctly dairy 
regions. Though on some of the Wisconsin farms studied a large 
part of the farm income is derived from the sale of hogs, in no other 
section of the United States, with the probable exception of several 
New York and New Jersey counties, is the farm income so largely 
derived from the sale of dairy products as in the regions under dis- 
cussion. The extent to which the farm income is dependent on 
dairy products in this region will be seen from Table IV. For pur- 
poses of comparison the per cent of farm income from various 
products in several other regions is given. 
Table IV. — Sources of farm income on Wisconsin and Illinois share-rented 
dairy farms, compared with Illinois stock farms, Texas cotton farms, and 
Pennsylvania dairy farms. 
[Per cent of receipts.] 
Sources of farm income. 
Dairy cattle and their products 
Other stock 
Poultry and eggs 
Corn 
Wheat 
Oats 
Rye 
Hay 
Potatoes 
Cotton 
Miscellaneous 
Total 
Share-rented farms. 
84 dairy 
farms in 
Green 
County, Wis. 
59 dairy \ 124 dairy 
farms in farms in 
Kane Chester 
County, HI. i County, Pa. 
100 
100 
100 
Cotton farms. General. 
115 farms 
in Ellis 
County, 
Tex. 
100 
73 central 
Illinois 
stock farms. 
100 
1 From hogs, 19 per cent. 
J From beef cattle, 24; hogs, 28; horses, 5 per cent. 
