12 BULLETIX 1400, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 9. — Average number of livestock per farm for specified groups of farms 
Group of farms 
Dairy 
Small dairy _ 
Crop _ 
Mushroom 
Mushroom-dairy.. 
Poultry 
Small poultry 
Beef. -- 
Truck crop 
Potato 
Dairy 
Farms 
in 
group 
Size 
of 
farm 
Dairy 
cows 
cattle 
other 
than 
cows 
Beef 
cattle 
Hogs 
Animal 
Number 
Acres 
Number 
units i 
Nu mber 
Number 
270 
105 
14.8 
1.7 
0.1 
2.0 
38 
7s 
9.7 
1.4 
.9 
4. 1 
29 
123 
• (5.2 
1.0 
1.5 
6.1 
27 
58 
1.5 
.3 
1.9 
3.2 
25 
115 
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1.8 
2.1 
5 
CI 
7.2 
.8 
.1 
7 
52 
4.0 
.4 
.4 
3 
130 
1.9 
.2 
17.8 
2.3 
3 
182 
10.2 
1.0 
1.7 
12.5 
3 
90 
7.0 
.6 
2.0 
.8 
Sheep 
Number 
0.3 
2.2 
.4 
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Chick- 
Work 
ens 
stock 
Number 
Number 
105 
4.2 
175 
3.3 
107 
4.6 
76 
3.1 
119 
4.3 
314 
2.6 
152 
2.0 
110 
3.3 
138 
6.0 
168 
3.0 
Horses 
per 100 
acres in 
farm 
Number 
4.0 
4.2 
3.7 
5.3 
3.7 
4.3 
3.8 
2.5 
3.3 
3.3 
1 Counting young heifers or calves as one-half unit, and mature animals as 1 unit. 
The typical dairy farm in this region has no beef cattle, hogs, or 
sheep, the small figures shown in the dairy group for these animals 
in Table 9 representing occasional exceptions. Some farms raise all 
their own cows, but most do not raise enough heifers to maintain 
the herd. 
On small dairy farms poultry and hog enterprises were more im- 
portant than on the regular dairy farms, and an occasional farm in 
this group kept sheep. 
The crop farms had small dairy herds or none at all, and somewhat 
more hogs and beef cattle than the dairy farms. Only about as many 
chickens were kept, however, as on the dairy farms. 
The " mushroom-dairy " farms — those dairy farms where mush- 
rooms were grown as a supplementary enterprise — kept just about 
the same livestock as the dairy farms, but on the mushroom farms 
where the dairy enterprise had been dropped, hogs, beef cattle, or 
sheep were added in many cases. 
In the other groups the livestock were as would be expected from 
the designation. On poultry farms the dairy enterprise had been 
still further subordinated to the poultry enterprise than on the small 
dairy farms, and the small poultry farms were largely part-time farms 
run on a small scale. The other groups represent special types or 
unusual conditions. 
The number of horses for each group, as shown in Table 9, is 
rather uniform in relation to the number of acres, though the usual 
tendency for the larger farms to have more acres per horse is evident. 
SOURCES OF INCOME 
By far the greatest part of the cash receipts of farmers in this re- 
region comes from dairy products. As shown in Table 10, dairy 
products brought in over $2,000 on the average for the dairy and 
mushroom-dairy farms, and over $1,000 on the small dairy and 
truck-crop farms. Crops, dairy cattle (including veal calves), and 
poultry ranked next in the order given on dairy farms, and on the 
small dairy farms poultry was a much more important source of 
income than either crops or dairy cattle. 
