. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. An Economic Study of Farm Layout 475 it replaces barn feed its value is approximately the cost of barn feed, which is very much higher than the cost of pasture. Cost accounts were kept in 1916 and 1917 on forty of the farms included in these studies. On twenty of these the meadows were pastured to a greater or less extent. On eighteen farms of twenty-six which had ten or more units of stock other than horses to pasture, the permanent pasture was supplemented by pasturing meadows; of the other eight, one could. Fig. 125. xtnfen
. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. An Economic Study of Farm Layout 475 it replaces barn feed its value is approximately the cost of barn feed, which is very much higher than the cost of pasture. Cost accounts were kept in 1916 and 1917 on forty of the farms included in these studies. On twenty of these the meadows were pastured to a greater or less extent. On eighteen farms of twenty-six which had ten or more units of stock other than horses to pasture, the permanent pasture was supplemented by pasturing meadows; of the other eight, one could. Fig. 125. xtnfenced field lines which occupy no land and do not interfere with ci'ltivation On this farm little stock is kept and fenced crop ficldi arc both unnecessary and undesirable not pasture meadows because the soil was too sandy to hold gi'ass well, and three had large areas of very cheap permanent pasture but little crop land. The farmers who pastured their meadows secured an average amount of pasture equivalent to the pasture of twenty-one cows for one month. This was equivalent to about one-fifth of the total pasture on these farms. The extra fence necessary for the fenced crop fields on these farms, in addition to permanent pasture, boundary, and lane fence, aver- aged 285 rods for each farm. At 6 cents a rod the cost of maintaining this extra fence would be $ a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Myers, William Irving, 1891-. [Ithaca
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