20 BULLETIN 482, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
RELATION OF TYPE OF FARM TO UTILIZATION OF PASTURE. 
According to results shown in Table XIV, the dairy type of farm 
would seem to utilize pasture most efficiently. This, however, is not 
necessarily true. The apparent efficiency of that type may be ex- 
Fic. 11.—Typical tobacco field. Even on the tobacco farms tobacco occupies a rela- 
tively small part of the farm area. 
plained by the fact that dairy farms depend on silage and concen- 
trated feeds in addition to bluegrass pasture, while the other types 
of farms mostly “rough” the young cattle and steers through the 
winter and depend entirely on bluegrass to put on growth and fat 
during the summer. This system would necessarily require more 
acres of pasture per animal unit than the dairy system. It will be 
observed, however, that the stock-with-tobacco type utilizes pasture 
area more efficiently than any of the other common types. 
TABLE XIV.—Felation of type of farming to utilization of pasture area. 
Farm Pasture 
Number 
z Cro acres per | acres per 
Type of farm. oes inde =| canine ean 
= unit. unit. 
PROD ACCOR Ek we ee oe eae ee en Oe ely teh eG eta ee Ea a 31 93 10 4.3 
PROWSCCORSEOC Ke See eee aaa Nae et te ee eee eine: eee eae 61 96 6 3.3 
OXE1a Cie W Moll: C310 Leen Ry Ginter RE ein ie Mite noe Mi web, Bde i pene oe 36 99 8 BET 
StOCKawithctODACCO See es eee ernest nga 31 102 5 P37 
Stock withs0tobaceornse. 2 ee ee 18 113 6 3.6 
dD SU ey Aap ees PU pe ya ee A NE rae ae rari ate 10 99 3 1.8 
= | | 
The renting value of land, as shown in Table XIII, would indicate 
that with the exception of the stock-with-no-tobacco type the land 
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