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BULLETIN 1388, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
tion those enterprises which local conditions and the managerial 
ability of the operator have proved to be generally most successful 
and profitable. Around these enterprises fill in such supplementary 
enterprises as can profitably utilize the remaining portions of the 
land, labor, water supply, equipment, feeds, and managerial ability, 
keeping in mind that adjustments are sometimes necessary to main- 
tain or increase the productivity of the land as well as to meet 
changing conditions 01 the market. 
APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES DISCUSSED 
The following illustrations tell how various farm practices and eco- 
nomic conditions have influenced farm earnings on a few representa- 
tive farms in the area studied. The more important principles of 
farm organization, applicable to conditions on each farm, are briefly 
discussed. 
The farms used in the discussion are not necessarily the best or 
the poorest farms. They are selected primarily for the purpose of 
illustrating farm-management principles which should be considered 
by Yakima Valley farmers in planning good farm-organization pro- 
grams for conditions existing on their farms. Each farm and farmer 
is discussed separately, showing: (1) A description of the farmer and 
his resources; (2) results attained from the present organization; (3) 
principles suggesting good or better earnings on this farm. 
It is not probable that all farmers would obtain similar results 
from the same adjustments in farm enterprises, mostly because of 
the many variations in farmers' resources as well as in their ability to 
handle successfully the different combinations of enterprises. Since 
most farmers, however, are willing to make such adjustments in 
enterprises as have proved to be satisfactory and to learn to conduct 
new enterprises profitably, it is reasonable to assume that many 
Yakima Valley farmers will be assisted in their plans for good farm 
organization by an analysis of conditions which have influenced farm 
earnings on other farms in the area operating under similar conditions. 
A detailed analysis of the farm business of seven farms operating 
under widely different sets of conditions is given for the crop year 
1922 in Table 26. Incomes from farming during this year were un- 
usually low largely because of the poor prices for potatoes. 
Table 26. — An analysis of the business and organization of seven individual farms 
operating under widely different sets of conditions, Yakima County, 1922 
Unit 
Small farm 
Medium farm 
Large farm 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 3 
No. 4 
No. 5 
No. 6 
No. 7 
Item 
Crops 
Crops 
and 
live- 
stock 
Crops 
Crops 
and 
live- 
stock 
Live- 
stock 
and 
crops 
on poor 
land 
Crops 
Crops 
and 
live- 
stock 
Resources used in farming: 
Land 
Acre 
Dollar .. 
do. 
20.7 
5,911 
3,900 
1,000 
100 
911 
20 
6,603 
4,200 
1,000 
300 
1,103 
40 
11,817 
9, 100 
1,500 
400 
817 
37 
13, 579 
7,500 
3,000 
500 
2,579 
40 
11,783 
6,500 
1,200 
300 
3,783 
80 
18, 682 
13,500 
1,500 
1,000 
2,682 
80 
Capital -_ . . 
25,811 
23,000 
800 
Dwellings ._. 
do. 
Other buildings ... 
-do.. 
200 
Working capital 
-..do.... 
1,811 
