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those which are unfavorable to each. This table is almost self- 
explanatory. It will be noted that dairying is handicapped by but one 
unfavorable condition and that one which can be neutralized by 
breeding up the dairy herds to meet the high price of hay and grain 
with a maximum milk production. 
TABLE XXV.—Some favorable and unfavorable conditions affecting types of 
farming, Chester County. 
Enterprises. Favorable conditions. Unfavorable conditions. 
Dainese s 2 cee Good markets; excellent pastures; corn; | High price of hay and grain. 
hay; size offarms; character of labor; 
gives winter employment. } 
1B ees seen eae High prices; usefulness as feed; soil; | Short season of employment. 
climate. 
Potatoese. Soe Nearness to markets; climate favorable; | Prices variable; low yields; soil. 
distributes labor. 
Wiheatees sass Soil; nurse crop for grasses; seasonal | Small farms; western competition; small 
distribution of labor; furnishes bed- profit per acre. 
ding. 
POULGRY see eee oe Excellent markets; soil; climate; pro- | Competition from small flocks everywhere. 
duction of home supplies; utilization 
of spare time and waste materials. 
Hothouse products.) Nearby great city; provide winter work.| Diseases; danger of overproduction. 
ORS Here seen Good amarket; spastuness sss - eco oe High price of concentrates; danger from 
cholera; competition with dairying; 
lack of skim milk. 
Clovra i eee ee ee eee | Good market; usefulness as feed; soil; Furnishes no profitable employment from 
climate. July to late September. 
ETI ChOPSae ase 242 Good market; home supplies...-.....-.- | Competition of near-by soils better adapted. 
Rui bees ee aces |e eee (Ce ee aaa Ase Sas tea ee Soil (?); topography (?); fluctuation of 
production and prices. 
Beef cattle......... Good market; crops; pastures; climate.; High price of feed; smallness of farms; 
competition with dairying. 
Shee pene sens a tee. 3 oy ae sci i eke gE oi sie | High price of feed; smallness of farms; 
| parasites; dogs; competition with dairy- 
ing; small per cent of nonarable land. 
Oats zece se =e ee ceee Maludias (eld == an eben eee eee | Climate; small value per acre; poor nurse 
|) <cLops 
Relation of type of farming to distance to market.—The region of 
this survey is so well provided with transportation facilities that 
none of the farms is located more than 5 miles from a possible ship- 
ping point. A tabulation of the various types of farniing and their 
relative frequency at different distances from shipping points shows 
practically no relations existing in this territory between the two. 
There are localities, however, in which many farms are located at 
great distances from a shipping point, and in which this fact becomes 
an important factor in determining the enterprise best suited to 
individual farms. 
Special farms.—As previously stated, 27 of the owner farms found 
in this survey were either wholly or partly devoted to the production 
of hothouse products, mainly mushrooms. A few farms produced 
hothouse tomatoes, and two of them derived a large per cent of their 
income from carnations. For the year of this survey (1911) these 
special farms made very satisfactory profits, considerably larger than 
farms of other types in this region, but it would be ruinous from the 
standpoint of profits for the farmers of this region generally to 
undertake a hothouse business. Overproduction would be inevitable. 
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