Farm shop work in Pennsylvania; . ial is taken to meanmaking work. It also includes repair work whenperformed on the objects originally constructed byfarmers as it is assumed, that with a possible few ex-ceptions, more skill is required to make an object thanto repair it. 2. Repair work includes only the repair work done onobjects not made by farmers. It will be kept in mindthat the actual amount of repair work done is greaterthan shown in this classification as explained in thepreceding paragraph. 3. Work done by expert mechanics is that work whichfarmers leave to men who follow vocations suc
Farm shop work in Pennsylvania; . ial is taken to meanmaking work. It also includes repair work whenperformed on the objects originally constructed byfarmers as it is assumed, that with a possible few ex-ceptions, more skill is required to make an object thanto repair it. 2. Repair work includes only the repair work done onobjects not made by farmers. It will be kept in mindthat the actual amount of repair work done is greaterthan shown in this classification as explained in thepreceding paragraph. 3. Work done by expert mechanics is that work whichfarmers leave to men who follow vocations such as / that of carpenter, concrete worker and blacksmith. Size of Farms.—Information about the size of farms becomessignificant especially when considered in connection with the type 13 of agriculture pursued. A truck farm or an apple orchard of fortyacres may require more labor and yield a larger income than a ^ M z, ^ tH cn Z, V) 3o Q, o a> tn rn < fe fa O m Nl cu _• S ^ —-( - S - 2 ^ -^ S -. rV7£7,4^ SJJy Ci^/T^tr^/ :^Q ^j£?iV/7// Table 1 Showing how the Supervisors of Agriculture rate 369 out of the 400 farmsstudied. Rating Number of farms Per cent Good 196 Fair 150 Poor 23 Table 2SIZE OF FARMS IN PENNSYLVANIA A. Farms Investigated B. Farms reported m U. S. Census Acres Mid Value Frequency Per 1000 Frequency Per 1000 Less than 3 1 972 3-9 1 19130 10-19 15 11 18556 20-49 35 72 39721 50-99 75 121 65687 100-174 128 55518 175-259 23 14096 260-499 330 2 4816 500-999 750 632 1,000 or over 167 .76 Total 365 219,295 Med an Acres Median Acres wheat ranch of ten times that area. Table 2 shows that most ofthe farms studied range in size between 50 and 175 acres, and thatthe median size is acres. The same table also shows how thesefarms compare in size with all of the farms of the state as reportedin the U. S. Census Repo
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