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Show Farm Management Survey Lnst fall, thL. office of Farm Man-agomont, Man-agomont, ium Slat08 ,)cpnrmcil, of Agriculture, mado a farm management manage-ment simcy In the l'th Uko Vl,lley. rho rciu :lt. of this suru-y have been published ns Dull, ti U7, U. S Department De-partment of Agriculture, and anyone .desiring a copy can get one by wrlt-iig wrlt-iig to their Congressman In Washington Wash-ington I), c, ghing the number of tho bulletin. The bulletin presents detnlled Information In-formation In regard to the profits In farming In thg section. Every farm-or farm-or In this valley should secure n copy and study R thoroughly. A man will bo greatly benefited by It Farmers who have received no returns, or small returns, on certain crops lu the paBt years will read their experience Just ns they occured. Some men will see their own statement uppearlng with the stamp ot government op-proval. op-proval. On the 35 small farms studied, the average of which had 1C 1-2 acres In crops, the Income of the farmer aver, aged 531. Tho value of the work done on the farm was considered ns an expense, nnd was subtracted from the farm receipts, nlong with tho other expenses. If this had not been done tho farm Income would have been $603, this represents tho amount available for living expenses If there were jio mortgage on which Interest hnd lo be paid Tho pay received by tho farmer for his own work nver-aged nver-aged $217 on these small farms. This Ilgure represents the farm Income ot $031, minus the G per cent Interest on the average total capital Invested per farm. On 30 larger farms, with nn average of 42 1-10 acres lu crops, the pay received re-ceived by the farmer for his own work averaged 1589. Tho Income of tho farm averaged $1179. Tho farm Income, plus tho value of tho work done by tho family, averaged $1443. The year 1913 was a good one for npples nnd n fair ono for peaches. Tho profits of farming may bo nbove tho average as n result ot that fact, Accordingly, tho olllco of Farm Management Man-agement has sent nil expert lu farm economics to mnko n new farm survey this fall. Tho expert In question In Mr. L. T. Connor, who Ib now at work making the second survey. Ho bus already al-ready secured considerable Information Informa-tion along the line of efficiency work. Tho Information gathered by him will bo published by tho government us soon as possible, and will be handled In such n wny that no man's farm can bo Indentlfled. Statements by fnnnerB nro considered Btrlctly confidential, nnd the data Bccured Is not open to Inspection by state or county olllcors. This Is always truo regarding work nf this kind undertaken by the feder- ul government. If the farmers In uny community In this section want It, Mr. Connor will gladly deliver a lecture on tho 1013 Burvey nt a convenient point on itfi evening agreeablo to all concerned. concern-ed. Mr. Connor Is stopping at tho Roberts Hotel In I'rovo. o |
