Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . s. The Survey Department, with Mr. Leitch at its head, has been con-ducting an investigation of farm management conditions in Oxford Countysince 1918, and the wrriter was shown the reports of Mr. Richens farmfor 1917 and 1918. A study of these gives a very good comparison ofthe farm in question and others in the district of the same size. In the1917 survey theie were forty-one farms of approximately the same sizeas Mr. Richens. His crops surpassed by 3 per cent, and his live stockby 27 per cent, the averages of those forty-one farms, while his receip
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . s. The Survey Department, with Mr. Leitch at its head, has been con-ducting an investigation of farm management conditions in Oxford Countysince 1918, and the wrriter was shown the reports of Mr. Richens farmfor 1917 and 1918. A study of these gives a very good comparison ofthe farm in question and others in the district of the same size. In the1917 survey theie were forty-one farms of approximately the same sizeas Mr. Richens. His crops surpassed by 3 per cent, and his live stockby 27 per cent, the averages of those forty-one farms, while his receiptsper cow were $131, as against $103 average for the group. His laborincome lacked only a few dollars of being double the average of the forty-one, and was just $200 less than that of the ten best farms of that 1918 his crops and livestock were even better than in the previousyear. He received $60 more per cow for milk sold than the average farmof his group and the business showed a higher labor income than any Continued on page 25.
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