Show HASTY conclusions SHOULD BE AVOIDED all argles of farm enterer enterprise ise should be ba considered if co cows w a were sold there would bc B no way of using roughage labor also would be lost ad ding another burden prepared by th the 0 united states department of f agriculture I 1 hasty conclusions should be avoided in fit making use of the results ot of the years cost accounts for improving the organization of the farm warns the united states department of agriculture all good farmers know that sometimes a positive decrease in profits may ensue it if an enterprise be dropped because taken alone it has failed to pay cows for instance may not show a net profit lyro fit but if all the tha cows were nere sold there might be no other nay may of using the roughage which would become a dead loss labor devoted night and morning to 2 A keeping of cows may be responsible for making hop hoa so profitable milking and feeding cows and charged to them would b be e entirely lost if the cows were sold and nothing supplied to fill in the time thus thua nn an added burden for the maintenance of labor would have to be borne by the other enterprises the fact that the hogs or tile the corn crop bring the roost most net money during the season is no reason for assuming that all the activities of the farm in the future should be devoted solely to hogs or corn it may be that the keeping of cows is 19 partly responsible for making hogs so profitable or that the growing of wheat clover or other crops in rotation with corn makes the latter crop much more profitable than it would have been if grown alone similar conditions will be met with on all farms and therefore no sudden changes should be made on the basis of what a single years accounts may indicate all angles of the ent enterprise should be taken into consideration |