FAKMING LOGGED-OFF UPLANDS ! X WESTERN WASHINGTON. 9 
the reasons for this condition are (1) the high price of the land, due 
partly to the proximity of large seaport cities, partly to the limited 
amount of available land suitable for farming and partly to the great 
demand for land in this section by people who have been attracted 
to the locality by the climate and scenery; (2) the difficulty of clear- 
ing, the cost of which in many cases exceeds the purchase price of 
the land; and (3) the widely current idea that a small farm is ideal. 
It is not surprising, therefore, to find that the types of farming in 
this area are mostly of an intensive nature. They divide easily into 
four groups: Dairying, poultry raising, fruit growing, and mixed farm- 
ing, the latter representing those farms in which the various enter- 
prises are small and no one is of outstanding importance. Table 3 
shows the size of farm which seems to have been most conducive to 
the development of the different types. In 1921 none of the farms 
with 5 acres or less of cleared land were dairy farms, while of the poul- 
try and fruit farms, only 1 had more than 25 acres of cleared land. 
Judging from the number of farms represented in both years farms 
with 5 acres or less of cleared land are slightly better adapted to poul- 
try raising, those with 6 to 15 acres to fruit and mixed farming, and 
those with larger areas to dairying. 
Table 3. — Relation of type of fanning to area of cleared land, 157 farms in 191') and 150 
faiins in 1921. 
Number 
of farms. 
Number of farms with specific 1 
amounts of cleared land. 
Average 
acres of 
5 acres 
and less. 
6 to 15 
acres. 
16 to 25 
acres. 
26 acres 
and over. 
cleared 
land per 
farm. 
79 
55 
12 
11 
t 
25 
3 
3 
35 
27 
6 
2S 
2 
3 
3 
12 
1 


17 2 
Poultry 
7.2 
Fruit 
10.5 
Mixed 
11.2 
157 
35 
73 
36 
13 
12.8 
1921. 
Pairv 
Poultry 
Fruit 
Mixed 
All farms. 
57 

19 
30 
8 
43 
20 
17 
5 
1 
27 

17 
5 

23 
4 
13 

1 
150 
29 
66 
45 
10 
19.7 
S.6 
9.3 
13.0 
L3.I 
CAPITAL INVESTED. 
Comparison of the farm capital in different groups is shown in Table 
4. The dairymen and those following a mixed type of farming have 
the largest amount invested in land because they have the largest 
farms. The poultry and fruit farms show the greatest value of real 
estate per acre, largely because they are near the cities. The largest 
amount of working capital 1 is required on the dairy and poultry farms 
and the smallest amount on the fruit farms. The larger portion of 
the working capital is in form of productive livestock cows and poul- 
try. 
1 " Working capital " is that portion of the capital invested iu livestock, machinerj , feed, and cash to 
run the farm. 
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