Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-02-14

is affected by the production of his
stock and his crop yields, as well as
by the size of his farm. A large
farm may have a small labor income
due to poor cows, or low crop yields.
Notice how the quality of the cows af
fected the labor incomes of these 26
farmers.
ARE YOUR COWS GOOD PRODU-
GERS?
The farm animals are the market
for most of the crops grown in Or
leans county. If the stock is of poor
quality, of course the market is poor.
The following table shows the effect
of poor cows and good cows on the
labor income. The farms were sorted
by the value of milk and cream sold
per cow.
Receipts Av:1abor Az. no. No. of lab %,
per income of cows inc. OVer$eO)
Av:,
Group years IL 10 IA rs IA rs
S S az * 81 IS II +: sS$s
The farms with good cows had
much larger labor incomes than the
farms with poor cows. Notice that
the farms in the last group of the ia
the farms in the other groups: 1t
was not larger farms that made the
last group the most successful.
Are you marketing your crops to
good or poor market? In other
words are your cows good producers?
Compare them with those on the ave-
rage farm and on the well-balanced
farms,
Av. of 26 Av. of 5 well bal
farms 1915 anced farms 1915
Milk receipts
per $50 $74
Live stock receipts
per 800 worth of
LA leBS RI INCOME 55s eI5
A good pure-bred bull will build up
the production of the herd. Feeding
silage corn has increased the returns
from many herds. The cow testing
association will show you which are
the poor COWS.
Cows should be fed in proportion
to their production. This is very i'm
portant when feeds are high in price.
Some farmers get good returns above
the market value of the feed which is
fed to their stock. Other farmers do
not get enough products from their
stock to equal the market value of the
feed consumed, to say nothing of
paying for the labor done in caring
for the stock. This may be due to
poor cows, poor feeding methods, or
both. Notice in the table the differ
ence in the average labor income of
these two kinds of farmers.
500 worth Of in cows per incomes
1914 1915 IA IS IA IS
Returns n n
GOOD Returns ST. 800 800 Il IS 5ins 5 in 8
ARE YOUR CROPS AS GOOD AS
THE AVERAGE OF YOUR
SECTION?
The production of the crops is an
other important factor in successful
farming. 1t does not cost a great
deal more to produce good yields than
to produce poor yields. The following
table shows that the average labor in
come was higher on farms with the
bettersyields of crops.
Av. labor No. of labor
Drop Yields 1911 inoG lbs in 1914 over s $500
az az s fsS: e s; 1Ps
Comparison of crop yields of the
average farm with the five best.
9roP t Av:of 49, Av. of well bal.
11elds farms 1915 anced farms
6 aay ! LIT r. 80 LIT L.
Corn S1lage l2T. 123T.
Potatoes 40 blu. l79 bu
If your yields are not better than
the average what is the reason? Are
you leaving the meadows down too
long? Do you use good seed? Do
you get the greatest returns from the
e., q
Have you tried top-dressing your
meadows with chemicals or manure?
THE WELL BALANCED FARM.
1t pays to have a large farm bust
ness, good stock and good crop
yields. However, a farm should not
be very high in one factor and low in
the other two. The farm business
should be well balanced. Large crop
yields may be fed to poor stock. The
cows may be very good, but with only
a few of them one does not have much
chance of making high labor in
come. A farm may be large but if it
has poor stock and low crop Yields.
the labor income will not be very high.
The averages of these three factors
on the farms in 1915 were as follows:
Average of 26
farms, 1915
Size-number of COWS Is
Stock production
Receipts per cow $50
crop yields Average
In the following table the farms
were grouped according to the num-
Der of these factors as good or better
than the average:
No. of factors as Av Ia No. of labor
gOod or better Dor in incomes over
than average come $500
1914 1915 1914 1915
None 1924 1878 Oin1 lind
5S5 355 / in in 10
z 400 6S9 in Is 8 in7
Alb 1873 9l3 2in4 in s
1t was not the farms that were high
only in one point that made the high
labor incomes. The smost successful
farms were above the average in all