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BULLETIN 1236, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The increase in real estate value from $194 to S2S7 per acre is 
significant. This is due partly to the general rise in land values, 
partly to the increase in tillable area per farm, and partly to the 
building improvements added, amounting to an average of $561 
per farm. 2 
Dairying was still the principal type of farming in 1921 on these 
47 farms, as shown in Table 14. 
Table 13. — Summary of the business of 47 farms operated by the same owners, 1915 and 
1921. 
1915 
1921 
37.2 
35.2 
15.1 
17.4 
13.5 
14.1 
10.1 
10.0 
.5 
.6 
.5 
.8 
2.4 
2.7 
6.2 
6.5 
149.0 
168.0 
1.7 
1.6 
$8,381 
§11,558- 
6,002 
8,120 
1,227 
1,999 
1,152 
1,439 
1,157 
1,848 
113 
222 
58 
73 
12 
44 
14 
27 
528 
737 
318 
565 
17 
15 
1915 
1921 
Acres in farm 
Acres cleared 
Acres in crops 
Acres in — 
Hay 
Potatoes 
Berries 
Other crops 
Number of cows 
Number of hens 149. 
Number of work stock 
Total capital $8,381 
Land without buildings . 
Buil dings 
Working capital 
Receipts, total. 
Berries 
Other fruit 
Potatoes 
Other crops 
Dairy products and cattle i 
Poultry and eggs 
Selling wood 
Receipts — Continued. 
Outside labor 
All other 
Expenses, total. 
Hired labor 
Family labor 
Repairs and depreciation on 
machinery and buildings 
Feed bought 
Taxes 
All other 
762 
62 
63 
71 
403 
63 
100 
Farm income 
Interest on capital at 7 per cent. . . 
Labor income 
Value of operator's labor and man- 
agement 
Per cent return on capital 
Family farm income * 
Family living from farm 
Size of family on farm (adult 
equivalent ) 
Real estate mortgage 
Farm value per acre 
$586 
-$191 
$3S6 
0.1 
( 2 ) 
4.0 
$237 
$194 
$149 
16 
1.158 
92 
198 
120 
743 
134 
271 
S'290 
$S09 
-S519 
1607 
-.'.7 
1488 
$341 
3.8 
$157 
$287 
1 Includes returns from outside labor. 
2 No data for 1915. 
Table 14. — Number of farms of each type in 1915 and 1921. 
Type of farming. 
Number of farms 
of each type. 
1915 
1921 
Dairy 
34 
6 
"■ 
■2 
29 
Fruii 
7 
Poultry 
Mi\c«l • 
6 
Twelve of the operators of these farms were following a different 
type of farming in 1921 from 1915, changing as follows: 
Seven dairy farms changed to Four mixed, two poultry, one fruit. 
Three poultry Farms changed to one mixed, one fruit, one dairy. 
One mixed changed to dairy. 
One n .hi changed to poultry. 
• Theri tportanl changes in farm mortgages on these 17 farms during thesis Tears. 
'iin ii i .mm having mortgages In i ( .n"> averaged 11,013 each; In L921 only 7 farms bad mortgages, 
ch. 
oni of the 11 farms mortgaged In 1916, 7 paid off all of their morl iging $878 per farm) by 
reduced their mortgage an average of $300 each during the six pears; i acquired 81,100 more than 
v- hat he b id; i bree I a mer who had no farm mortgage Ln L915 acquired an average of $733 each by 1921. 
