FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA 
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day-to-day management of the labor program would help materially 
in avoiding the necessity of hiring extra labor at any time. This 
plan greatly reduces the possibility of shortage of feed for the live- 
stock being kept, and at the same time gives a net increase in returns 
of nearly $700 over the present plan of operation. 
Table 55. — Returns from reorganization -plan No. 2 
Acres 
Yield per 
acre 
Total yield 
Amount re- 
quired for feed 
Amount for 
rent 
Salable 
surplus 
Corn for grain 
Corn fodder. . 
70 
10 
50 
25 
1.8 
5.7 
45 bushels... 
2tons 
42 bushels... 
1.5tons 
1 ton 
3.5 tons 
3,150 bushels. . 
20 tons 
2,100 bushels.. 
37.5 tons 
1.8 tons 
20 tons 
2,650 bushels.. 
All 
324 bushels.. 
176 bushels. 
Oats 
1,900 bushels.. 
All 
200 bushels.. 
Clover and timothy.. 
Wild hay.. 
AIL. . 
Alfalfa 
All 
Total.. 
162.5 
45 
7 
214.5 
Pasture 
Farmstead 
Total 
Sales: 
Crops— 176 bushels corn, at 
J.50. 
Livestock — 
30, 000 pounds pork, at $0.08 $2,400 
8, 000 pounds beef at .05 400 
2,400 pounds butterfat at .45. 1,080 
100 pounds wool at .30 30 
650 pounds mutton at .10 65 
Total livestock 3,975 
Total crops and stock 34,063 
COSTS OF EXTRA MATERIALS 
Seed 
Twine 
Thresh- 
ing and 
husking 
Total 
Corn ..... 
$22 
48 
27 
6 
$7 
20 
$189 
63 
$218 
Oats 
131 
Clover and timothy 
27 
Alfalfa 
6 
Total 
103 
27 
252 
382 
Veterinary and medicine: 
Hogs . ._ . 
60 
Cows.. . . .. ... .. . 
10 
Miscellaneous cattle .. ..... . ... .. ... 
15 
Horses . . . . . . . . 
6 
91 
473 
3, 590 
690 
ILLUSTRATION NO. 2 
Inventory of resources and 'present production organization. — Table 
56 gives a description of the resources and productive organization 
in 1922 of another of the farms studied. This is one of the largest 
farms in the group and is operated almost altogether by family labor. 
Normal rather than actual crop yields are used. 
