Dairy farming / by C.H. Eckles ... and G.F. Warren.

  • Clarence Henry Eckles
Date:
1916
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Credit: Dairy farming / by C.H. Eckles ... and G.F. Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    farms of less than 20 acres have 36 per cent of their capital invested in buildings and machinery. Those of 100 to 174 acres have only 17 per cent of the money thus invested, yet they have much better buildings and more machinery. Money thus employed not only is unproductive, but it is a source of constant cost for repairs. If a farmer had all his money invested in buildings and machinery, his income would, of course, be zero. In fact, he would not be a farmer at all. Table 40. — Area Related to Investment in Buildings and Machinery, for United States, 1909, from the Census Report Acres Value of Buildings per Farm Per Cent of Capi¬ tal in Buildings Value of Machin¬ ery Per Cent of Capi¬ tal in Machin¬ ery Under 20. $ 605 34 $ 56 2.5 20-49 . 474 21 76 2.8 50-99 . 848 19 156 3.1 100-174 . 1182 14 241 2.7 175-499 . 1734 10 390 2.4 500-999 . 2174 8 639 2.4 1000 or over. 3330 5 1196 1.0 229. Size of the Herd. In regions where very little ex¬ cept dairy products is sold, the number of cows kept is the best measure of the size of the business. Table 41 gives results from such a region in Jefferson County, New York, and shows that farmers who have herds of 20 or more cows are doing very much better than those who have smaller herds. In fact, the size of the herd is as important as the quality of the cows. The usual advice to sell the poorest cows and keep only the best ones should be changed to the more practical advice to replace the poorest cows by good
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