14 
BULLETIN 1236, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Miscellaneous receipts, of which outside labor is the largest item, 
amounted to 7.1 per cent of the total receipts in 1915 and 10.1 per 
cent in 1921. 
Practically three-fourths of the receipts of the dairy farms are from 
the dairy, 70.6 per cent in 1915 and 75.9 per cent in 1921. Outside 
labor is next, with 8.5 per cent of the total receipts in 1915 and 10.6 
per cent in 1921, and poultry third, with 10.6 and 6.2 per cent, repec- 
tively,for the same years. In 1915, 82 per cent of the receipts of the 
poultry farms were from poultry. This was increased by 2.3 per cent 
in 1921, principally on account of larger flocks. The importance of 
dairying and fruit growing on the poultry farms was less in 1921, the 
former decreasing from 6.1 percent to 2.2 per cent of the total receipts. 
On the fruit farms in 1921, 75.2 per cent of the total receipts were 
from fruits, 39.2 per cent from strawberries alone. In 1915 straw- 
berry receipts alone amounted to 55.6 per cent of all farm receipts. 
Poultry is of considerable importance on the fruit farms, contribut- 
ing 20 per cent of the total receipts in 1915 and 9.6 per cent in 1921. 
Cattle and dairy products amounted to 5.1 per cent and 7.3 per cent 
of the total receipts for the same years. 
The distribution of enterprises on the mixed farms in 1921 was 
much more desirable and profitable than in 1915, as will be seen in 
the discussion of incomes on these farms. (See p. 15.) The oper- 
ators of these farms derive a large proportion of their incomes from 
outside work. 
On all types of farms, except fruit farms and mixed farms for 1915, 
the receipts from livestock and livestock products far outweigh the crop 
and all other receipts combined, but a large amount of hay and all 
the grain fed are purchased. 
EXPENSES ON FARMS OF DIFFERENT TYPES. 
Table 8 and Figure 5 show the distribution of the principal items 
of expense on the farms of different types. Feed was the largest item 
of expense, except on the fruit farms in 1921. Expense for feed 
ranged from 21.1 per cent of all expenses on the fruit farms in 1921 
to 76.7 per cent on the poultry farms in 1915. 
Table 8. — Distribution of farm expenses on farms of different types. 
1915 
1921 
All 
farms. 
Dairy. 
Poul- 
try. 
Fruit. 
Mixed. 
All 
farms. 
I 'airy. 
Poul- 
try. 
Fruit. 
Mixed. 
Number of farms 
157 
79 
55 
12 
11 
150 
57 
43 
-7 
23 
Total expense per farm 
$762 
$624 
$1,0-21 
1743 
$502 
11,696 
SI. 252 
$2,891 
$1,212 
$1,136 
Expense for— 
42 
70 
It . 1 
52 
45 
49 
72 
314 
67 
51 
16 
73 
783 
31 
138 
70 
57 
242 
50 
37 
95 
51 
L90 
57 
128 
L66 
117 
893 
lol 
81 
is 
15 
114 
11 
155 
122 
183 
117 
65 
101 
5 
[30 
146 
218 
151 
68 
122 
6 
L9 
341 
131 
75 
256 
71 
9 
L93 
56 
Family labor 
138 
Repairs and depreciation 
of machinery and build- 
93 
Feed bought 
529 
(real estate and 
108 
55 
12 
Crates and containers 
13 
lis 
7."> 
10 
57 
B2 
mi 
24 
45 
20 
95 
I'« V Cenl "f rr<vi|>) 9 rvquilVil 
to meel :iii expenses 
Per cent of receipts required 
to meet eXpen8eS f"f feed. . . 
66. 1 
40.4 
(,:.. l 
:<.'. 7 
67.6 
61.0 
62. i 
20.2 
75. B 
28.7 
80. 1 
42.3 
84.6 
82. 6 
B2.2 
57.7 
6S.3 
11.4 
7s. B 
86.7 
