FARM MANAGEMENT ON IRRIGATED FARMS 
Table 3. — Number of livestock per farm on S 
unnyside division 19 13-1923 
Number 
of farms 
Average number of head per farm 
Year 
Horses 
and 
mules 
Cattle 
Hogs 
Sheep 
Poultry • 
1913 .__ 
2,450 
2,447 
2,450 
2,453 
2.682 
2,740 
2,810 
2,905 
3,065 
3,138 
3,181 
2.8 
2.8 
2.5 
2.6 
2.6 
2.7 
2.8 
2.6 
2.4 
2.4 
2.3 
3.0 
3.7 
4.5 
4.5 
4.1 
3.3 
3.1 
3.5 
3.0 
3.9 
4.0 
6.6 
9.8 
13.3 
7.6 
5.5 
6.1 
5.5 
5.0 
3.5 
3.9 
6.0 
1.8 
.8 
2.7 
2.4 
2.9 
3.3 
3.4 
2.0 
1.8 
1.9 
1.8 
44 
1914 
40 
1915 
47 
1916 
44 
1917 .- 
44 
1918 
41 
1919 
1920 - 
48 
51 
1921 
58 
1922 
71 
1923 
67 
Table 4. — Number of crop acres per farm on Sunnyside division 1913-1923 
Average number of acres per farm 
Year 
Alfalfa 
Corn 
(all) 
Pota- 
toes 
Small 
grain 
Miscel- 
laneous 
Pasture 
Orchard 
Dupli- 
cated 
area 
Total 
Old 
Young 
Bearing 
Young 
cropi 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
9.9 
10.7 
10.6 
11. 1 
11.8 
13.3 
14.7 
15.7 
13.5 
11.8 
11.9 
1.0 
'3 
1.3 
1.0 
1.1 
1. 1 
1. 1 
.8 
.6 
.6 
1.8 
2.4 
3.7 
4.0 
3.1 
2.9 
. 3.0 
2. 1 
1.6 
1.6 
1.9 
1.9 
1.6 
1.6 
1.5 
2.0 
1.3 
1.2 
1.3 
2.3 
3.0 
1.9 
0.1 
.2 
.9 
.7 
1.5 
1.6 
1.4 
1.8 
1.9 
1.7 
1.8 
1.8 
1.4 
1.3 
1.7 
23 
3.3 
2.1 
2.0 
1.9 
2. 1 
2 
0.9 
1.0 
1.4 
1.4 
1.5 
1.5 
2.2 
2.0 
1.9 
2.1 
2.2 
3.4 
3.8 
4.5 
5.4 
5.0 
4.8 
4.8 
4.6 
4.4 
4. 1 
4.1 
4.0 
3.4 
2.5 
.9 
.4 
.2 
.2 
.1 
.3 
.4 
.5 
1.0 
1.0 
1.6 
2.5 
2.7 
3.0 
2.4 
2.3 
1.2 
.7 
.7 
24.8 
25.2 
26.8 
28.0 
28.6 
30.0 
30.7 
30.7 
28.6 
27.4 
26.9 
^oes not include duplicated area. 
Most of the increase in the small-grain acreage since 1913 is repre- 
sented by wheat and was largely made at the expense of corn. Bar- 
ley and oats have not been able to compete successfully with wheat, 
because the returns per acre have been comparatively low and the 
labor and materials required for each of the grain crops is about the 
same. The low yield and low prices of wheat in 1921 made this 
crop relatively unprofitable, resulting the next year in a break in the 
many successive years of increase in wheat acreage. 
A study of local prices will often help to throw light on factors which 
play a large part in the efficient selection and organization of farm 
enterprises. The trend of local prices helps to show whether price 
changes for different commodities tend to be small or large, tempo- 
rary or permanent, and also shows the tendency of changes in the 
price of some commodities to lag behind changes in the general price 
level. Such a study also helps farmers to compare price advantages 
of different commodities at a given time, and, when properly under- 
stood, price trends help the farmer to guess more accurately what 
prices are likely to be in the future. 
Some price trends, important to farmers in the Yakima. Valley, are 
shown in Table 5. All farm prices were comparatively high during 
the middle part of the 11-year period, 1913-1923, but considerable 
variation is noticed in the time and rate at which the price level 
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