16 BULLETIN 1400, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 14. — Average cash expenses of farms in specified groups — Continued 
Items 
Automotive expenses: 
Farm use of automobile. 
Tract or e \ pense 
Total automotive - - 
Real estate costs: 
Taxes.. 
1 nsurance _ _ 
Building repairs and improvements. 
Total 
Interest paid-- 
Livestock purchased 
Direct expenses on mushroom enterprise 
Expenses by groups of farms 
Dairy 
Small 
dairy 
Mushroom 
Mushroom- 
dairy 
Crop 
Dollars 
56 
19 
Dollars 
45 
16 
Dollars 
121 
34 
Dollars 
102 
43 
Dollars 
44 
27 
75 
61 
155 
145 
71 
164 
42 
184 
124 
29 
282 
130 
66 
518 
202 
77 
190 
156 
36 
108 
390 435 
714 469 
300 
121 
290 
85 
270 
55 
261 
2,651 
169 
215 
1,612 
3 Given in detail in Table 36. 
Table 15. — Distribution of expenses, except for livestock purchased, for groups of 
farms 
Item 
Materials purchased. 
Labor. 
Services purchased. - 
Automotive expense. 
Real-estate costs 
Interest paid.. 
Mushroom expense. . 
Total 
Group of farms 
Dairy 
Per cent 
41.1 
22.5 
9.4 
3.4 
18.0 
5.6 
Small 
dairy 
Per cent 
44.6 
14.5 
7.4 
3.5 
25.1 
4.9 
Mush- 
Per cent 
9.1 
17.7 
2.0 
3.1 
14.2 
1. 1 
52.8 
100.0 
Mushroom- 
dairy Cr °P 
cent 
Per cent 
22.5 
36.7 
20.0 
21.9 
4.9 
12.0 
3.2 
4.3 
10.3 
18.3 
3.7 
6.8 
35.4 
100.0 
1 Excluding livestock purchased. 
Automobiles are in use on over half the farms surveyed, 4 and 
tractors are used on a number of farms, but automotive expenses 
make only a very small part of the total expenses. On the dairy 
farms they amounted to only about one-sixth as much as hired labor. 
The mushroom-dairy farms hired an average of $425 more regular 
labor than did the dairy farms; the mushroom farms hired $530 more 
labor than did the crop farms. Since in both cases the mushroom 
farms sold no more crops or livestock and products than did the 
corresponding non-mushroom farms, this extra labor expense must 
be considered as due primarily to the mushroom enterprise, and must 
be kept in mind in considering direct expenses for the mushroom 
enterprise shown in Table 36. 
Interest on indebtedness, and taxes, insurance, and building up- 
keep, amounted to about one-quarter of the expenses, except on the 
farms that grow mushrooms. Taxes alone ranked as an important 
item of expense on all farms. 
For details of the use and costs of automobiles in this and other areas see (21). 
