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BULLETIN 603, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Where zero appears after a source of income, the receipts from it 
were less than 1 per cent. Several other sources of income, the re- 
ceipts from which were less than 1 per cent, are included in the 
miscellaneous receipts. 
Seventy-five per cent and 85 per cent, respectively, of the farm 
income on the share- rented farms of Wisconsin and Illinois studied 
was from dairy cattle and their products, while but 54 per cent of 
the income from such farms in Chester County, Pa., was from this 
source. For comparison as to sources of income, the table shows that 
86 per cent of the income from the average of 115 farms in Ellis 
County, Tex., is from the single crop, cotton, and that 57 per cent of 
the average of 73 central Illinois stock farms comes from live stock. 
SIZE AND CROP AREAS OF FARMS. 
Table V- 
—Size and crop areas of fa 
SIZE. 
ins. 
Average of 84 Wis- 
consin farms. 
Average of 59 Illi- 
nois farms. 
Item. 
Acres. 
Per cent 
of total 
area. 
Acres. 
Per cent 
of total 
area. 
201 
140 
84 
16 
102 
100 
70 
42 
8 
51 
184 
139 
58 
10 
116 
100 
Tillable area 
32 
5 
63 
CROP AREA. 
Crop. 
Acres. 
Per cent 
of crop 
area. 
Acres. 
Per cent 
of crop 
area. 
Corn 
38.2 
21.7 
.4 
1.7 
5.1 
23.9 
9.3 
1.2 
.3 
.2 
37.4 
21.2 
.4 
1.6 
5 
23.4 
9.1 
1.2 
.3 
.2 
59.6 
23 
4.1 
1.4 
3.5 
18.7 
5.2 
51.4 
Oats 
19 9 
Wheat 
3.5 
Rye 
1.2 
Barley 
3 
Timothy and clover 
16.2 
Alfalfa 
4.5 
Wild hay 
Fruit (apples) 
.2 
.2 

Potatoes 
.1 
Total 
102 
100 
116 
100 
The average size of the farms of the Wisconsin group is 17 acres 
greater than that of the farms of the Illinois group. (See Table V.) 
A greater percentage of the land in the Illinois group of farms is 
tillable and in crops and a less percentage is in pasture than on those 
of the Wisconsin group. 
Corn is the chief crop in each area. The crops occupying the next 
greater acreages are hay and oats. In the Wisconsin area, 9.1 per 
cent of the crop area is in alfalfa, the limestone soils of the hilly sec- 
tions of Green County being well adapted to this crop, while in the 
