26 BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
in Table VIIL. The same data are shown in graphic form in figure 7. 
In the case of potatoes it should be remarked that the price of this 
commodity for the year to which this study relates (1911-12) was 
very high, and this gives the crop a much greater apparent impor- 
tance than the facts justify. On the face of the returns for this year 
the potato crop occupies third place as a direct source of revenue. 
Under average conditions it would stand fifth or sixth in the area to 
which this study relates. This fact should be kept in mind in inter- 
preting the data given here. 
TABLE VIII.—Proportion of income from various enterprises on 378 Chester 
County farms operated by their owners and 73 Illinois farms. 
| 
Per cent of total. 
Sources of income. 
378 Pent | 73 Tlinois 
farms. farms. 
ID ainy Dtoducisss ee = eee eee eee oe Ne ee ee ee ne ote 39.1 0.9 
IDR a(S aH (ee es ete Seat eerie Sue teat eee ae ey eee eee els foi Gos 5.0 2.2 
IBeehCa tile seers cere a eo 5 ae ee nS ee eee tye ee pe er eee 1S 23.6 
-sEForsess mules Wand sColtsas: 2 ees ees Sa, Byatt ee Te ee ee na 4 | See 
SHEEP eres cae ane Ae oie ae See Pe ae Ee ores ae See ee eee ere | = 
PROPS aoe repin = eens Se ks ciara = ae he ete RIE > La cg tS i ae te ote See 2.8 28.4 
(Roultny an dieses Sue. Fhe SIN PERO a ee eee aac oe a ee eT ee Mee er gees 8.2 i.9 
Muscellaneousmecelptsia. 5-00 bch ae eae ar ae eh ae ee Pee es 1.9 5 
hnereisedangeed and) Sipples= 2 se ep ee eg gd ee | 4.1 Bee a 
(COTTE es BSNS ax See eyes SNe oe nl ee Ge. ee Sa et Ae ae: RS 2.3 19.3 
POU ALCS? Sot See eee BE TO NE ae ny Roe RE ue kn aaa 8.9 (b) 
Whicati atk Mel eso 2od eas yaad okie om Ciena nels bg eee | 8.5 10.7 
OTS eeE Se i a teen elle ee ee On Cees ere eee Se tra See err Uae Dee ros ue: oa 3.7 
TVs ee iin ie ia alee are es aaee Rieieere stes DRS OM yet op cell Seo ieee eee 14.3 4 
BEST OR Gere ae epee ee Se = SE CANE SE Sel ee (oA ree 2 ORE Se ee eh -0 
PINT CK et Pas) oe eae Sige Oe eee ge ee SR Sis a pe Cake oe ae cee eee ae ae ss .0 
IMBSCOM ATTCOUS/ CLO PS moa eee oa eee ree eta ee ate Un eg ae ra 1.4 9 
160.0 100.0 
a Labor, outside the farm, wood sold, etc. b Less than 0.1 per cent. 
Taking the community as a whole, we find dairying occupying the 
place of greatest prominence. If we add together the receipts from 
dairy products and those from the sale of calves and dairy cows, this 
industry is found to account for more than three times as great a pro- 
portion of the income on these farms as any other enterprise. Hay 
stands second, while wheat and poultry represent other important 
sources of income Ordinarily potatoes stand on a par with dairy 
cattle here. The remaining enterprises which are of sufficient magni- 
tude to be represented on the scale of figure 7 are hogs, corn, steers, 
straw, fruit, truck, sheep, horses and colts, and oats, in the order 
named. — | 
For the sake of comparison with a region where economic condi- 
tions are vastly different from those prevailing in Chester County, 
similar data are given in Table VIII for the group of Illinois farms 
previously mentioned. In this Illinois area the most important 
source of income is hogs, the percentage of income from them being 
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