Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . and the type of farming,and when comparing the labor income of different types of farms, capitalinvested is a better measure of size than land area. In the better portionsof the corn belt $10,000 would be too small an investment to yield a fairincome. Land values at $150 to $200 per acre would make the acreage 826 SUCCESSFUL FARMING too small to fully utilize the character of teams and equipment best adaptedto the production of the crops of that region; 100 to 120 acres is aboutthe
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . and the type of farming,and when comparing the labor income of different types of farms, capitalinvested is a better measure of size than land area. In the better portionsof the corn belt $10,000 would be too small an investment to yield a fairincome. Land values at $150 to $200 per acre would make the acreage 826 SUCCESSFUL FARMING too small to fully utilize the character of teams and equipment best adaptedto the production of the crops of that region; 100 to 120 acres is aboutthe minimum size that can be economically farmed there; 160 to 240 acresis a more economical size. Bonanza Farms.—This term applies to the very large farms, most ofwhich are located in the northwestern part of the United States and whichfrequently cover from ten to thirty or more square miles. Wheat isgenerally the leading product. Such farms usually consist of an aggrega-tion of a number of farm units under one management. In some cases,however, several thousand acres may be farmed with one set of A Small Farm Under made to order; heat, light and moisture controlled. Very large fields are used and the work is done either with farm tractors orwith very large teams. The chief advantage in farming on such a largescale lies in the economy of skill, equipment, buying and selling. Large-scale farming, like manufacturing on a large scale, affords enough of onespecial kind of labor to fully occupy the time of one or more men. In thisway, men are most highly skilled and confined to a performance of workfor vNrhich they are specially trained. Unlike manufacturing, however, suchlarge-scale farming covers so much area that close supervision by a superin-tendent is impossible. It also involves the loss of much time on thepart of both manager and workmen in traveling to and from fields, or fromone enterprise to another. It obviously enables the employment of a high- i
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