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BULLETIN 1236, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 4. — Average distribution of farm capital on 157 farms in 1915 and 150 in 1921. 
1915. 
Real estate. 
Total. Per acre 
Working c ipital. 
Total. 
Machin- 
ery and 
work 
stock. 
Other Other 
live- working 
stock. capital. 
Dairv . •*7. 469 
$159 
287 
382 
283 
SI, 315 
77 
516 
$348 
233 
. ' 
192 
$734 
433 
146 
300 
2 
Poultry 
Fruit 
Mixed 
i.908 
6,104 
6,914 
113 
L35 
88 
All farms 
6, 429 
L97 
1,015 
287 
554 
174 
1921. 
Dairy 
Poultry 
Fruit 
Mixed 
9,837 
7,470 
6,916 
8,548 
225 
551 
413 
252 
1,597 
1,596 
490 
1,198 
436 
401 
207 
376 
734 
1,006 
191 
562 
427 
Is'.' 
92 
260 
Vll farms 
8, 435 
294 
1,336 
375 
688 
273 
LIVESTOCK. 
Chickens and dairy cows are the most important livestock on these 
farms. Ninety-five per cent of the farmers, both in 1915 and 1921. 
kept chickens. There was an average of 223 hens per flock in 1915, 
and 298 in 1921. Cows were kept on 93 per cent of the farms in 1915 
and on 88 per cent in 1921, the average for these farms being 5.2 head 
in each year. On the farms having young cattle, there was an aver- 
age of 3.7 head per farm in 1915 and 2.5 in 1921. 
The dairy farms in 1915 averaged 7.9 cows per farm. This was 
increased slightly, to 8.7 cows, in 1921. On the average, very few 
hens were kept on the dairy farms, there being only 55 hens per farm 
in 1915 and 43 in 1921. 
On the average poultry farm the flock was increased from 458 hens 
at the beginning oi the 1915 farm year to 697 in 1921. Dairy cows 
were comparatively unimportant on these farms. There was an aver- 
age of less than 2 cows per farm in both years. 
Work stock was kept upon 90 per cent of the farms in 1915 and 86 
per cent in 1921, with an average of 1.6 head on the farms with work 
stock in both years. 
Hogs were kept on less than half the farms, and on these farms 
there w r as an average of only 4.2 head in 1015 and 2.9 in 1921. Hogs 
were sold from only 29 per cent of the farms in 1915 and 19 per cent 
in 1921. The fact that all grain must be purchased and the absence 
of skimmed milk make the raising of hosjs for market unprofitable. 
CROPS. 
Hay occupies ;i greater acreage than any other crop on all except 
the fruit farms. It is practically all led on the farm, many of the 
dairy farms buying additional hay. About 83 per cent of the crop 
area of the dairy farms was in hay in 1 ( .)1") and L921 and for all farms 
average 71.4 per cent and (15.7 per cent, respectively, for the same 
