. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE l| BULLETIN No. 1070 f. ^Xf^^J-i. Washington, D. C. July, 1922 FARM MANAGEMENT IN CATAWBA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. By J. M. Johnsox. Agriculturist, and E. D. Strait, Assistant Farm Economist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in cooperation uith North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. coNTErrrs. Page. Summary of results 1 General description of area 3 Type of fanning and analysis of farm business 5 Crop rotations 17 This study is based on a farm business analysis survey of 297
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE l| BULLETIN No. 1070 f. ^Xf^^J-i. Washington, D. C. July, 1922 FARM MANAGEMENT IN CATAWBA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. By J. M. Johnsox. Agriculturist, and E. D. Strait, Assistant Farm Economist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in cooperation uith North Carolina State Board of Agriculture. coNTErrrs. Page. Summary of results 1 General description of area 3 Type of fanning and analysis of farm business 5 Crop rotations 17 This study is based on a farm business analysis survey of 297 farms, for the year 1912 and of 304 farms for the year 1918 in Catawba County, N. C, and on census reports for that county from 1850 to 1920, inclusive. (Table 1.) The facts brought out, though strictly applicable only to the area surveyed, should offer valuable sug- gestions to all farmers throughout the lower Piedmont region. The objects of this study were: 1. To ascertain the type of farming followed and the profits realized in a long-established agricultural community of the southern Piedmont country. 2. To determine the importance of such factors as the size and the quality of the farm business as they affect the economic organ- ization of farms. '.',. To bring out the farm practices that enable some farmers to excel other-, in single enterprises or in the entire farm organization. 1. To note changes that have taken place in the type of farming during tin- six-year period. .",. To determine the change thai has taken place in crop yields, prices received for products, quantities of the several products liable foe sale, and expenses of operating the farm business, and, so far ;i- practicable, their effect upon the farm profits of the ;irea. M MMAHY OF BESULTS. The more important fact- brought out by this studj maj be sum- marized as follow -: Typi "l farming. General crop fanning with live stocb I] 22 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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