The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 1, 1920, Page 11

N T L 5 Wb 3 ADVERTISEMENTS Farm Profits Low Less Than $500 Per Year on Av- erage, Survey Shows IGURES on farm profits, ¢| covering seven years in two areas and five years in _a ‘third, have been made public by the Unit- ed States department of agriculture. These figures show: That comparatively few of the farm- ers in the groups studied have been making large profits during the recent years of comparatively. high prices. That most of them are making less than $600 cash per year over and above the things the farm furnishes toward the family living. The three groups of farms studled are located, respectively, in Washing- ton county, Ohio (25 farms, hill coun- try, seven years), Clinton county, Ind. (100 farms, corn belt, seven years), and Dane county, ‘Wis. (69 farms, dairy region, five years). . The average farm income of the 25 farmers visited in Washington county, Ohio, for the seven years 1912-18, was $610; the labor income, $276; the re- turn on investment, 4.6 per cent. addition to the farm income, the farm- ers had food, fuel and house rent, esti- mated to be worth, on the average, $359 per year. For 1912 the farm in- come of these farms averaged $456, and for 1918 the average was $719. These farms are in a hilly section, where the soil is not especially fertile. e 100 farmers in Clinton county, Ind., being on better land than the Ohio farmers, made a correspondingly better showing. Their farm intomes averaged $1,856 for the seven years, 1910 and 1913-18, and their labor in- comes $558 Return on capital was 5.7 per cent and food, fuel and house rent furnished by the farm $425. The average farm income of these farms increased from $1,282 in 1910 to $2,978 in 1918, RETURN ON INVESTMENT AVERAGES 4.7 PER-CENT- The farm income 6f the 60 Wiscon- sin farms dveraged $1,293 for the five years, 1913-18, the labor income $406, Munou : FoRHO Prove at_our risk that you can easily save one-third on high priced feed by using MILKOLINE Good Buttermilk Made Better for Feeding Hogs and Poultry Sold on 30 Days Free Trial Distributors in every state. Write for free booklet, “‘How To Make More Money From | Hogs and Poultry.” Milkoline has been fed by tens of thousands of Hog and Poultrymen for more than six years, Not an experiment. Your name on a postal brings full information —send it now. MILKOLINE MANUFACI'UR!NG CO. 406 Creamery Bldg., Kansas City, Mo, secre| 8 SWEEIEV SYST.I ; by whlch 5,000 = Lesrnin & few ; no previous FREE mfidififia.'m‘of'mmur:“‘m‘éfi ew Million Dollar Frade Schook SCHOOL OF AUTO-TRACTOR-AVIATION 52 SWEENEY BLDG. 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