FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA 
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not be radically altered from year to year must, of course, be kept in 
the mind when making these choices. At the same time this general 
plan should provide an element of flexibility that will facilitate the 
making of desirable adjustments as conditions change. 
ILLUSTRATION NO. 1 
Inventory of resources and present productive organization. — Table 49 
gives the resources and productive organization as they existed in 
1922 on one of the farms for which data have been presented under 
"unit requirements." Normal rather than actual crop yields are 
used in order to avoid the effect of seasonal variations in individual 
crop yields upon the total amount of crops available for feed and 
sale. The actual livestock production is presented. 
Table 49- 
-Present cropping system 
Real estate and crops 
Acres 
Expected 
yield per acre 
Total produc- 
tion 
39 
9 
45 bushels 
2 tons 
1,755 bushels. 
18 tons. 
Oats 
50 
12 
6 
12 
5.7 
1.8 
42 bushels 
25 bushels 
18 bushels 
1.5 tons 
3.5tons 
1.0 tons 
2,100 bushels. 
Barley.. ... . . . . _. 
300 bushels. 
Rye 
108 bushels. 
Clover and timothy .. . .. . 
18 tons. 
20 tons. 
Wild hay 
1.8 tons. 
135.5 
43 
6 
Pasture. . . 
184.5 
The buildings are sufficient to take care of 12 cows, 24 young 
cattle, the work stock, 12 sheep, and 18 brood sows and their pigs. 
Productive livestock, number, kind, and production: 
12 cows, 2,400 pounds butterfat. 
24 young (dairy and miscellaneous) cattle, 8,000 pounds beef. 
18 brood sows, 20,000 pounds pork. 
12 sheep, 100 pounds of wool, 650 pounds mutton. 
Labor supply: 
Man-labor— 
The labor of the operator for the entire year. 
A hired man employed from March to August, inclusive. 
The operator's wife, who assisted with the care of dairy utensils. 
Horse labor: Six horses throughout the year. 
Machinery and equipment: The farm is fully equipped with the machinery needed in the production of 
small grain, corn, and hay crops. 
The distribution of man and horse labor on this farm by weeks for 
1922 is shown in Figure 27. The supply of each available for use on 
the different enterprises is shown by the dotted lines on the chart. 
Strictly speaking, the supply of regular man labor is rather flexible 
because of the speeding up or lengthening of the day during periods of 
heavy demand for labor. This speeding up is usually followed by a 
corresponding decline in the amount of work done during the following 
period. The supply as shown in the chart was estimated by taking 
the usual full day's work performed by the regular laborers on this 
farm and assuming that this could be maintained throughout the 
season. All labor other than that done by the operator and his wife 
must be hired. 
The first important peak of man labor was during April and early 
May. The preparation and seeding of the oats and barley crops 
