. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 58 BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. at the right and the largest at the left of the diagram. The line running clear across the lower part of the diagram shows approxi- mately the size of each farm as measured on the scale of acres shown at the left. The largest farm was 393 acres and the smallest 13 acres. The first farm to reach a labor income of more than $1,000 was a farm of about 37 acres. It was an intensive dairy farm conducted by a very efficient owner. The first farm to reach a labor income of mor
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 58 BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. at the right and the largest at the left of the diagram. The line running clear across the lower part of the diagram shows approxi- mately the size of each farm as measured on the scale of acres shown at the left. The largest farm was 393 acres and the smallest 13 acres. The first farm to reach a labor income of more than $1,000 was a farm of about 37 acres. It was an intensive dairy farm conducted by a very efficient owner. The first farm to reach a labor income of more than $2,000 was one of 80 acres and of similar type to the smaller farm just mentioned. The first to reach $3,000 was a farm of 120 acres, which was also a dairy farm, but quite diversified in character, having several other important enterprises. Quite a num- ber of minus labor incomes are shown, represented by the vertical columns projecting downward from the zero line of labor incomes. The largest minus labor income was found on a farm of more than RELATION OF SIZE OF FARM TO LABOR INCOME. Fig. 9.—Labor income and area of each of the 378 farms operated by their owners. 100 acres and the next largest on a farm of about 120 acres. Thus a large farm presents the possibility of large losses as well as large profits. Size of farm, then, is not sufficient; the farm must be properly organized and efficiently managed and must be devoted to types of farming that are suited to the locality and to the business conditions on the farm. The largest minus labor income shown on this diagram was due to a serious error in the selection of the type of farming. It will be noticed that many minus labor incomes are shown on the very small farms at the right of the diagram in figure 9. The next largest number of minus labor incomes is found just to the right of the middle of the diagram, on farms of about 70 to 90 acres. These farms were of proper size for a good two-man dairy farm, but for so
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