UNITED 
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mm. BULLETIN No. 1070 1 
Washington, D. C. July, 1922 
FARM MANAGEMENT IN CATAWBA COUNTY, 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
By J. M. Johnson, Agriculturist, and E. D. Strait, Assistant Farm Economist, 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in cooperation uith North Carolina State Board 
of Agriculture. 
CONTENTS. 
Page, j Page. 
Summary of results 1 | Type of farming and analysis of farm business 5 
General description of area 3 Crop rotations 17 
This study is based on a farm business analysis survey of 297 farms, 
for the year 1912 and of 304 farms for the year 1918 in Catawba 
County, N. C. and on census reports for that county from 1850 to 
1920, inclusive. (Table 1.) The facts brought out, though strictly 
applicable only to the area surveyed, should offer valuable sug- 
gestions to all farmers throughout the lower Piedmont region. 
The objects of this study were: 
1. To ascertain the type of farming followed and the profits 
realized in a long-established agricultural community of the southern 
Piedmont country. 
2. To determine the importance of such factors as the size and 
the quality of the farm business as they affect the economic organ- 
ization of farms. 
3. To bring out the farm practices that enable some farmers to 
excel others in single enterprises or in the entire farm organization. 
4. To note changes that have taken place in the type of farming 
during the six-year period. 
5. To determine the change that has taken place in crop yields, 
prices received for products, quantities of the several products 
available for sale, and expenses of operating the farm business, and, 
so far as practicable, their effect upon the farm profits of the area. 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 
The more important facts brought out by this study may be sum- 
marized as follows : 
Type of farming. — General eropjfarming with live stock. 
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