American Agriculturist, December 15, 1923 
409 
Farm Survey Analyzed 
JOHN J. BIRCH 
T HE United States Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, together with the New York State 
College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 
have just concluded a survey of farming condi¬ 
tions in Livingston County, New York. This 
■urea was chosen because as they said: “There 
the conditions are typical of moderately suc¬ 
cessful general farming with a large assortment 
of crops.” 
It is understood that a number of similar 
surveys are to be made in various parts of the 
country in an effort to determine whether or 
not farmers are getting adequate returns for 
their produce and to compare the living condi¬ 
tions in various parts of the whole United 
States. 
This survey covered 402 farms having an 
average size of 131 acres and representing 
about 14% of the total number in the county. 
Of these 402 farmers, 295 were owners and 107 
tenants, either paying a money rent or working 
on shares. 
The following is a tabulation of the findings: 
Expenditure by the average family (12 mo.) . $2,012 
for food.39.5% 
Of this expendi- for clothing. 13.8% 
ture of ■ for health maintenance. 4.1% 
$2,012. for education. 15.9% 
for personal items. 0.5% 
Average value of the farm home. $2,340 
Those having water in the house. 19 .8% 
Those having gas or electricity in the house. 24.6% 
Average value of the home furnishings. $822 
Families owning cars. 75 6% 
Average cost of operating car. $05.00 
Families with children over 18 years old. 165 
Per cent, of these 165 with children high school 
graduates. 30.3 
Families with children old enough for college . 92 
Per cent, of these 92 with children in college. 29.4 
Fathers or mothers attending school beyond the 
8 th grade. 45.8% 
Fathers attending one year or more of college. 2.5 % 
Those having telephones. 75.0% 
Average expenditure for travel. $12.00 
Average expenditure for clothing per family.$277.00 
Homes containing books and magazines. most 
Homes containing musical instruments. most 
CHENANGO COUNTY FARM 
BUREAU HOLDS ANNUAL 
MEETING 
H. H. LYON 
C HENANGO County, N. Y., has a live 
farm bureau. As is usual every personal 
call, the number seen each day, the number at 
meetings and reached by speakers, telephone j 
calls and telegrams are all counted. It makes ! 
a big counting by the end of the year. Last | 
year these averaged to cost 21 cents a contact. 
This year by better planning the number has 
been increased by over 50 per cent, and the 
cost has dropped to 12 cents each as an average. 
In the publication of the County Bureau News 
the advertising has a little more than equaled 
the cost of the publication. 
This county is not one of the nine in the 
State in which the county pays a veterinarian 
for testing for tuberculosis. We are running 
the tests strongly just the same and it is on the 
presumption that it is for the benefit of the 
individual rather than the public it would 
seem. 
Direct Interest in Potato and Cabbage 
Cooperatives 
The chief project in cooperation that the 
county bureau can help about is believed to be 
in relation to the reorganization of the State 
potato and cabbage association. ' This is 
something in which this county is considerably 
interested. We are interested in the State 
federation of farm bureaus for it was stated 
that we are likely to pay to that federation 
a thousand dollars by the close of the year. 
We should try to make the federation work for 
us as a county to make that payment avail us 
something. We have lands that may as well go 
for foresting and it is possible that the federa¬ 
tion can assist in forming a policy that wall 
bring the foresting projects to the benefit of 
the county. Forestation may be investing 
something that gives us no return for some 
time but in thirty or forty years it may be. 
made to return in a revenue to the county. 
The problem of the farm bureau as manager 
Fogg sees it, is to get every member interested 
in something in a special way. Teachers think 
it some job to get fifty pupils interested. One 
wonders how one little man can get eight 
hundred or a thousand individuals really taking 
an interest in some line of improvement. 
Dr. Warren Addresses Meeting 
Dr. Warren suggested that it may be possi¬ 
ble to grow more of our own foods on the farm 
and moi’e of the feeds for the cows. That may 
seem strange advice for these times because 
farmers have more than they can do already. 
It probably means that dairymen may find it 
possible to produce more feeds by keeping 
fewer cows and better ones. Corn can be I 
j ; ( Continued on yage Jfl6) 
!■ 
About Farm Machines and the 
McCormick-Deering Line 
T HE U. S. Department of 
Agriculture has shown that 
farm equipment is one of the 
smallest items in the cost of 
farming, the yearly average being 
only 4 to 8% of the total. 
Farm machines are sold for less money, 
pound for pound and quality for quality, 
than any other similar manufactured 
article. Yet in profitable farming there 
is nothing more important than good 
equipment. 
Check the cost of your farm machines 
against the rest of your investment — 
land, buildings, labor, live stock, etc.— 
and your figures will probably agree 
with the average. 
Now is a good time to inspect the 
condition of your machines. Most of 
them have been used lately. Are any of 
them worn out? Are some of them so 
out of date that it does not pay to use 
them? Are there new methods on the 
market you should be adopting? Have 
you been getting along without certain 
machines that would save you money 
and labor? 
To help you take an inventory of 
your needs, we are printing the full 
McCormick-Deering line. 
The purpose of all McCormick-Deer¬ 
ing machines is to make farming better, 
easier, and more profitable for their 
owners. They are all useful, modern, 
and efficient. The Harvester Company’s 
work of standardization has simplified 
the variety of lines, combining many 
good features in fewer essential 
machines. Power farming is at its best 
where McCormick-Deering Tractors 
[15-30 and 10-20] are used with 
McCormick-Deering machines for draw¬ 
bar and belt work. They are made to 
work together. 
t 
We will send you descriptive mate¬ 
rial, catalogs, details as to sizes and styles 
on any machine or line that may need 
attention on your farm. Write the ad¬ 
dress below. Call on the McCormick- 
Deering dealer; he will always be at 
your service. 
International Harvester Company 
606 So. Michigan Ave. 
of America 
[Incorporated] 
Chicago, Ill. 
McCORMICK-DEERING Farm Operating Equipment 
GRAIN HARVESTING 
MACHINES 
Binders, Headers, Push-Binders, 
Reapers, Rice Binders, Shockers, 
Power Drive Binders, Threshers, 
Harvester-Threshers, 
BELT MACHINES 
Ensilage Cutters, Corn Shelters. 
Huskers and Shredders, Cane 
Mills, Threshers, Huskers and 
Silo Fillers, Feed Grinders, Hay 
Presses, Stone Burr Mills. 
BEET TOOLS 
Seeders, Cultivators, Pullers, 
HAYING MACHINES 
Mowers, Rakes, Tedders, Load¬ 
ers (all types). Stackers, Bunchers, 
Combination Side Rakes and 
Tedders, Sweep Rakes, Baling 
Presses, Combination Sweep 
Rakes and Stackers. 
CORN MACHINES 
Planters, Listers, Drills, Binders. 
Cultivators, Lister Cultivators. 
Pickers, Ensilage Cutters, Shelt¬ 
ers, Huskers and Shredders, 
Huskers and Silo Fillers. 
TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS 
Tractor Plows, Walking Plows, 
Riding Plows, Disk Harrows, 
Tractor Harrows, Orchard Har¬ 
rows, Spring-Tooth Harrows, 
Peg-Tooth Harrows, 1 and 2 
Horse Cultivators,Culti-Packers, 
POWER MACHINES 
Kerosene Engines, Kerosene 
Tractors, MotorTrucks. 
DAIRY EQUIPMENT 
Cream Separators (Hand, Belted 
and Electric Driven), Kerosene 
Engines, Motor Trucks. 
PLANTING AND SEEDING 
MACHINES 
Corn Planters, Cotton Planters, 
Corn Drills, Listers, Grain Drills, 
Broadcast Seeders, Alfalfa and 
Grass Drills. 
OTHER FARM 
EQUIPMENT 
Farm Wagons and Trucks, Cane 
Mills, Manure Spreaders, Stalk 
Cutters, Knife Grinders, Syrup 
Evaporators, Potato Diggers, 
Binder Twine, Lime Sowers, 
Tractor Hitches, Straw Spreader 
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Creamery, Dairy and Dairy 
Barn Equipment 
59 Murray Street New York City 
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