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Show SURVEYS SEEK STANDARD FOR FARM INCOME By MRS. RENA B. MAYCOCK U. S. A. C. Extension Service What must the farm income be in order to insure a minimum cf esentials for the farm home? We do not know; we cannot even venture ven-ture a guess with any degree of confidence. con-fidence. No careful surveys have been made on this problem, therefore we have no accurate data. Here is a research field of vit?.l importance that is, as yet, practically untouched. untouch-ed. A loose estimate, (therefore, un-dependable), un-dependable), has been made by the state extension service, as a basis in determining farm management procedure for Cache county farms in Utah. The minimum cash net income in-come for family use is estimated at $1200 a year, plus undefined farm privileges. Oregon estimated that the mimimum net cash income for farm family and home expenditure should be $1500 a year. Kansas makes its minimum estimate at $2800 per year. Of course, standards of living still differ considerably in different locations. lo-cations. But the whole world is fast becoming a common neighborhood, so near are we brought together by auto, airplane, telephone and radio. No normal person can continue happy and contented if he is forced to stand back and see the rest of the world go by in splendor. The embittered, embit-tered, incapacitated, negatived person per-son is not the one to be depended upon to carry his share in big business, busi-ness, and to help guide a nation on to prosperity. In this respect the farm home is of more importance to the morale of the farm business than any other home is to any other business, because be-cause it can and does carry a double dou-ble load the economic . and the so cial. No farm with an unhappy, discontented, discon-tented, oppressed farm home, for example, is a safe loan risk to any banker. Is the average farm family justified justi-fied in hoping it may eventually realize re-alize for itself the essentials of higher high-er standards of living? Should the average farm family want more than it can afford to pay for. The only way absolutely to control con-trol one's wants and one's expenditures expendi-tures is to be a hermit have no neighbors, know no one at all. But that is not civilization. It is not cooperation, co-operation, and every effort is being made to induce farmers into organised organ-ised groups and large scale cooperation. |