FARM MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. 13 
first column of Table II. It will be observed that the number of 
farms is nearly uniform in the various size groups up to farms of 
120 acres. Beyond this the numbers drop off so rapidly that in order 
to secure numbers sufficient for reliable averages it was necessary to 
use wider size limits in the groups. The average size of farms in 
the various groups ranges from 28 acres in the smallest to 203 in the 
largest, the average of the 378 farms being 90 acres. Of this, 71 per 
cent is tillable and 61 per cent actually devoted to harvested crops. 
Ten per cent of the entire farm area is represented by pasture on 
tillable land, 11 per cent by pasture on untillable land, 9 per cent by 
woodland, while the remaining 9 per cent represents waste land, 
roads, building sites, ete. 
TABLE I1.—Size of farms, utilization of land, value of real estate, percentage of 
pasture, and crop and pasture area per animal unit, 378 Chester County 
farms operated by their owners. 
Value 
Num- | Aver- | Tilla- Tilla- r of real ae 
Sizes of farm inacres.| ber of | age bl Crop | ple pas- Othners| Woods) Waste i actate EES 
facia leisizes oaseh area. | “ture. pasture.| land. | land. per ture 
acre. 
: Acres. | Per ct.)| Per ct. Per ct.| Per ct..| Per ct. |Pen, ct. Per ct. 
1300 2 eee 54 28 73 67 8 9 5 1] $123 AA 
al 0) G0 Sie eee 61 52 12, 62 10 10 8 10 94 24 
OMTO SOS kei ok 60 73 72 63 9 rl 7 10 94 24 
sl 17 ICO soaks eaeaeee 68 93 71 62 9 10 10 9 91 23 
NOMSCOM20E=- 2s oo 5 52 110 71 60 10 12 8 10 86 27 
IZIETOPIGON So 22 61 136 66 58 7 13 11 11 84 26 
UG UO ais see 22 203 73 58 14 10 11 7 87 29 
BMIESIZOG 25 cc... 378 90 Fil 61 10 11 9 9 90 25 
1 Per cent pasture is of total crop and pasture area. 
The proportion of tillable land is approximately the same on farms 
of all sizes, being somewhat smaller on the larger farms, though in 
the very largest group it is above the average. The per cent of crop 
area decreases as the size of farm increases, ranging from 67 per 
cent of the entire farm in the smallest group to 58 per cent in the 
largest. The pasture area increases slightly with increase in size of 
farm, as does also the woodland. The percentage of waste land is 
about the same on all the groups except the largest, where it is some- 
what smaller than the average. 
The last column of this table shows the percentage of the combined 
crop and pasture area consisting of pasture. This increases consid- 
erably on the larger farms, ranging from 21 per cent to 29 per cent 
and averaging 25 per cent. 
The preceding column shows the value per acre of the real estate in 
1911, the year to which this survey relates (more accurately, Mar. 
1, 1911, to Mar. 1, 1912). The average for the entire 378 farms was 
$90. With the exception of the last group, consisting of the largest 
farms in the area, there is a gradual and considerable decrease in 
