. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. mm BULLETIN No. 651 S^K-'^J-U Contribution from the Office of Farm Management W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief. Washington, D. C. May 8, 1918 A FARM-MANAGEMENT STUDY IN ANDERSON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. By A. G. Smith, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Summary 3 Description of the area 4 General characteristics of the farms surveyed 6 Cost of producing crops 8 Methods of measuring success in farming 10 Yields 11 Acres per work animal and size of farms 17 Combination of enterprises 22 Crop rotation 32 INTRODUCTION. In a farm-
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. mm BULLETIN No. 651 S^K-'^J-U Contribution from the Office of Farm Management W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief. Washington, D. C. May 8, 1918 A FARM-MANAGEMENT STUDY IN ANDERSON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. By A. G. Smith, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Summary 3 Description of the area 4 General characteristics of the farms surveyed 6 Cost of producing crops 8 Methods of measuring success in farming 10 Yields 11 Acres per work animal and size of farms 17 Combination of enterprises 22 Crop rotation 32 INTRODUCTION. In a farm-management and cost-determination survey of 112 farms in Williamston, Belton, Broadway, and Honeapath Townships, in Anderson County, S. C. (see fig. 1), it was found that in the organi- zation and operation of the farms there are three outstanding fac- tors that determine the degree of success. These are (1) yields; (2) efficiency in use of labor and equipment, or, as it may be indi- cated in this region, the acres of crops grown per work animal; and (3) the combination of enterprises. Aside from these there are minor factors, some of which are at times important; but the farmer who shows a high degree of skill in keeping up yields, utilizing labor and equipment, and in combining the proper enterprises in the proper proportions in the farm organization is almost invariably successful. A correlation study made from the data of the survey showed that, as far as the methods used on these farms were concerned, yields constituted 62 per cent, acres per work animal 22 per cent, and the combination of enterprises 16 per cent of the total weight of the three factors in influencing the per cent return on the invest- ment. Thus it might be said that yields were three times as important as acres per work animal and four times as important as .33389°—18—Bull. 651 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabili
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