46 BULLETIN 920, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
FARM EARNINGS. 
The farm income for the five-year period averaged $1,293 per 
farm. For two years the average was less than $1,000, and for the 
last two years it exceeded $1,500. The five-year labor income 
1 DAIRY PRODUCTS SESS 
2 CATTLE 
3 HOGS. 
4 OTHER 
Oo 
191 3 YEAR YEAR 
YEAR 1913 1914 1915 1916 7 AVERAGE 
AVERAGE nana? 
RECEIPTS 1,961 1.841 1,858 2,560 3,278 2,300 RECEIPTS 
IN DOLLARS | 
1 IN DOLLARS 
Fia. 16.—Distribution of receipts on 60 farmsin Verona and adjoining townships, Dane County, Wis. In 
1913 live stock returned 93 per cent of the farm receipts, and in 1917 96 per cent. Five-sixths of the 
income was from the dairy herd and hogs, the receipts from dairy products showing the greatest gain 
over the period of study, 
