FARM MANAGEMENT ON IRRIGATED FARMS 
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for the crop year 1921 and of 139 farms for the following year. 
These individual farm reports were obtained through trained enu- 
merators who personally interviewed each farmer. The reports are 
for the farm year March 1 to February 28 and form the basis for 
this study. 
Three typical-size farm units predominate in this area. These are 
farms of 20, 40, and 80 acres each, with a few variations from these 
units. In order to permit a better understanding of problems and 
conditions on different-sized farms, each farm was placed in the group 
nearest the 20, 40, or 80-acre unit to which it belonged. For con- 
venience these farms are designated as small, medium, and large. 
No farms smaller than 20 acres were studied. 
RESOURCES USED IN FARMING 
The land, capital, and labor resources used in operating the differ- 
ent-sized farms are shown in Table 9. The small farms have an 
average of 23.6 acres, medium farms 40.6 acres, and the large farms 
79.7 acres for the two years. The average real-estate value per 
acre for each group ranged from $232 to $266 in 1922. For the same 
year the working capital, which consists of livestock, equipment, 
feed and supplies, and cash to run the farm, averaged $44, $43, and 
$32 per acre, respectively, for the small, medium, and large farms. 
Table 9. — Distribution of farm resources of land, capital, and labor per farm, on 
farms of different size 
Unit 
Size of farm 
Item 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
1921 
1922 
1921 
1922 
1921 
1922 
Farms 
Number _. 
Acre 
__.do 
26 
23.5 
20.3 
1.6 
1.6 
7,931 
6,619 
1,312 
286 
19 
244 
139 
372 
74 
178 
14.0 
11.4 
1.5 
.0 
1. 1 
.7 
14.8 
13.6 
1.2 
33 
23.7 
19.8 
1.6 
1.9 
.4 
7,090 
6,041 
1,049 
254 
26 
203 
72 
342 
51 
101 
60 
40.8 
35.8 
2.8 
2.2 
12,962 
11,132 
1,830 
365 
44 
318 
114 
592 
90 
307 
17.3 
11.6 
3.5 
.8 
1.4 
1.0 
10.7 
9.3 
1.4 
67 
40.4 
34.7 
2.8 
2.6 
.3 
12, 502 
10, 762 
1,740 
399 
52 
312 
123 
578 
81 
195 
25 
83.5 
70.7 
7.9 
4.9 
23, 914 
20,504 
3,410 
919 
42 
528 
209 
944 
144 
624 
24.4 
11.8 
6.0 
2.9 
3.7 
1.3 
8.1 
5.9 
■2. 2 
39 
Acreage per farm, total 
Acres in crop 
75.8 
63.3 
Acres in pasture . 
Acres in farmstead and 
waste 
...do 
...do 
4.8 
5.3 
Acres rented out 
...do 
2.4 
Farm capital, total 
Real estate capital 
Dollar 
...do 
20,055 
17,614 
Working capital, total 
Dairy stock 
Hogs 
Work stock 
Other stock .. . 
...do 
...do 
...do 
...do 
.do 
2,441 
496 
54 
415 
185 
Machinery. . 
.do 
887 
Feed and supplies 
Cash to run farm 
Labor used per farm, total 
(1922 only) 
...do 
...do 
Month ... 
-do 
116 
288 
Operator* __ 
Otherfamily ... 
...do 
...do 
...do 
...do 
Day 
...do 
...do 
Regular hired 
Extra hired 
Exchange . 
Labor used per acre, 2 total 
. 
(1922) 

Operator and family... 
All hired 
1 The item "Exchange" is not included in the total because the operator's labor, as listed, includes the 
time used by the operator in paying for Exchange labor. 
2 Total number of days of labor used on the farm, divided by the total number of acres in the farm. 
Twenty-five days are considered one month. 
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