An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 404 W. I. Myers This is not an isolated case. A similar process has been going on in all parts of the State as the development of farm machinery has increased the effectiveness of human labor and consequently the area of land that can be farmed to best advantage by one family. Other forces, however, are pulUng against this tendency to increase the size of farms. Every farm changes hands at least once in a generation. Tenants and other persons of small means often wish to buy small farms at first, because of lack of capital
An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 404 W. I. Myers This is not an isolated case. A similar process has been going on in all parts of the State as the development of farm machinery has increased the effectiveness of human labor and consequently the area of land that can be farmed to best advantage by one family. Other forces, however, are pulUng against this tendency to increase the size of farms. Every farm changes hands at least once in a generation. Tenants and other persons of small means often wish to buy small farms at first, because of lack of capital, with the expectation of buying more land later if successful. There is also a constant tendency to divide farms among the heirs when Fig. 73. plan of a western new york farm in 1906 The area of the farm at this time was 110 acres, 35 acres having already been added to the original 75-acre farm farms change hands l)y inlioritance. Tlio result of these conflicting forces is a slow increase in the average size of farms. The jilan of a western New York farm in 1906 is shown in figure 73. The area of the farm was then about 110 acres, 35 acres having been added to the original farm of 75 acres l^efore that time. In this vicinity much of the land was surveyed into rectangular farms of from 50 to 100 acres, three-(|uaiteis of a mile long. Sucli long, narrow farms were never aciapted to economical operation. Laiul at the end of one farm, three- quarters of a mile from the buildings and too remote for economical operation, is usually dire(;tly across the road from the farmstead of another
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