FARM MANAGEMENT PRACTICE OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. Dei 
ten times as great as it is in the Chester County area. Beef cattle 
are nearly as important as hogs in the corn-belt area, and sixteen 
times as much as in Chester County. As has already been seen, the 
percentage of corn acreage in the Illinois area is more than twice as 
great as it is in the Chester County area. The Chester County farmer 
grows a great deal of corn, it being his second most important crop. 
but he uses most of this corn on the place. Many of the Illinois 
farmers sell their corn, mostly to neighbors who feed their own as 
well as their neighbor’s corn to hogs and beef cattle. Corn is thus 
the third largest source of direct income in the western area, while 
in the eastern one it stands eighth. Wheat is the only source of in- 
come of approximately equal importance in the two localities. 
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS 
120 150 180 
DAIRY PRODUCTS : 
HAY 
POTATOES 
WHEAT 
POULTRY 
DAIRY CATTLE 
HOGS 
CORN 
STEERS 
STRAW 
FRUIT 
TRUCK 
SHEEP 
HORSES & COLTS 
§ OATS 
Pic. 7.—Sources and amount of receipts on 878 Chester County (Pa.) owner farms. 
MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES OF INCOME. 
In addition to the sources of income mentioned in Table VIII, the 
number of other farm products found here and there on a few farms 
is very small in the Chester County area. They are as follows: 
Seven farms sold a little corn fodder; five sold a little sweet corn; 
average of $22 worth of chestnuts were sold from two farms; two 
sold an average of $21 worth of rye; and the following products 
constituted a source of income on one farm each: Sweet peas, $300; 
cornstalks, $50; tobacco, $616; millet, $84; clover seed, $90; timothy 
seed, $110; and broom corn, $24. 
The relation of sources of income to size of farm is shown in Table 
IX. The proportion of income from dairy products increases 
slightly till the group of farms of 101 to 120 acres is reached. The 
two larger groups derive somewhat less of their income from this 
source than the last-named group. 
