FARM MANAGEMENT OX IRRIGATED FARMS 
Table 14. — Average 
25 
expenses, and income per farm on farms of different 
sizes studied, 1921 and 1922 
Item 
1921 
16 small 
farms 
60 medi- 
um-sized 
farms 
1922 
25 large 
farms 
33 small 
farms 
67 medi- , q , 
um-sized 3 , a _f 
farms farms 
Average size of farm 
Cash receipts per farm: 
Alfalfa 
Potatoes 
Wheat 
Other crops 
Livestock 
Livestock prodi; 
Miscellaneous receipts. 
Acres 
23.5 
i Dollars 
145 
406 
45 
203 
162 
204 
74 
Acres 
40.8 
Dollars 
425 
1, 052 
113 
203 
209 
236 
62 
Acres 
83.5 
Dollars 
1, 341 
1,346 
356 
34.5 
364 
229 
52 
Acres 
23.7 
Dollars 
317 
290 
22 
79 
128 
204 
76 
Acres 
40.4 | 
Dollars 
820 : 
347 
106 
168 
2.50 
275 
87 
Total. 
Cash outlay per farm: ' 
Hired labor 
Livestock bought 
Feed bought 
Seed bought 
Sacks 
Baling 
Threshing 
Taxes, real and personal 
Operation, and maintenance charges, 
irrigation 
Auto for farm use 
Repairs, machinery, and buildings... 
Miscellaneous expenses 
1,239 
2. 300 
4,036 
1, 116 
2. 053 
Acres 
75.8 
Dollars 
873 
244 
271 
271 
289 
52 
5.:i 
141 
112 
51 
107 
49 
34 
8 
L73 
Total. 
931 
Income per farm: 
Cash receipts less cash outlay 308 
Xet inventory change 2 —46 
Family income 262 
Less value of family labor 83 
Farm income 179 
Less 6 per cent interest on farm 
capital. 476 
Labor income „_. —297 
Value of farmer's labor 637 
Return on farm capitalization, 3 per 
cent —5.8 
Value of family living from farm 4 ... . 335 
Family income plus family living from 
farm 597 
277 
___ 
147 
459 
89 
70 
167 
203 
83 
122 
94 
304 
13 
50 
313 
506 
65 
161 
103 
200 
46 
88 
109 
199 
131 
43 
58 
80 
■"•1 
49 
4 
178 
33 
Llfl 
29 
62 
261 
119 
83 
108 
61 
124 
12 
315 
162 
139 
48 
81 
1,506 
3,139 
837 
794 
-29 
765 
165 
600 
897 
176 
1,073 
264 
809 
279 
-76 
203 
46 
157 
778 
-178 
755 
1,435 
-626 
841 
425 
-268 
560 
-1.2 
440 
-0.1 
3ft9 
—5. 7 
317 
1,205 
1,462 
520 
1,413 
749 
74 
49 
270 
172 
207 
33 
510 
105 
173 
90 
133 
640 
-67 
573 
136 
437 
750 
-313 
646 
— 1.7 
445 
1,018 
-210 
77 
255 
521 
1,203 
-682 
717 
-1.0 
482 
1,258 
1 Does not include cash outlay for permanent improvements such as machinery and buildings. 
2 Difference in inventory values of feed and supplies, livestock, buildings, and machinery. Minus 
sign ( — ) indicates decrease, equivalent to expense. 
3 Earnings of farm capital after all expenses and value of operator's labor have been deducted. It is 
the farm income, minus the value of the farmer's labor divided by the farm capital. 
* Value of food and fuel produced and used on the farm and maintenance cost of the dwelling. 
One of the important forms of income on farms is the value of the 
items which the farm furnishes toward the family living. For the 
different-sized farms this averaged from |317 to $482 (Table 14). 
Farmers who provide a large part of their family living from com- 
modities produced at home not only effect cash savings which often 
amount to $300 to 8400, but they usually have the variety of food 
which is essential to their health and contentment. From a study 
of Table 17, it would seem that many of the farmers have an oppor- 
tunity to increase the importance of their farm-furnished products. 
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