74 BULLETIN 1296, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ning of the labor program by the farmer. Such an expansion should 
usually come only after the farmer has been successful in managing 
the smaller organization. 
The selection of farm enterprises to be carried on and decisions 
concerning the methods and practices to be used in carrying on the 
different enterprises, are matters under the control of the farmer and 
present the greatest opportunities available to him for increasing his 
returns from farming. It is believed that many farmers in central 
Kansas will find it to their advantage to use the method outlined 
and the data presented, or the data From their own farms, together 
with the principles given, in analyzing their farm management 
problems and making such adjustments in their enterprises as will 
result in increased net returns. For most farmers in McPherson 
County this will mean the production of more feed crops and live- 
stock and a somewhat smaller acreage of wheat. On many farms 
it will mean improvement in methods of feeding and handling the 
different classes of livestock. Some farmers will find it profitable to 
keep their present wheat acreage and to expand the production of 
feed crops and livestock by renting or buying additional land. These 
and other problems of a similar kind must be considered in the light 
of the principles given. 
