Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1952 Page: 99
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RESEARCH IN FARM ECONOMICS 99
kitchen. They also needed some covered area for drying clothes,
particularly during the winter.
Sewing is an important activity in many western homes, the survey
showed-enough so that planners felt justified in making special
provisions for this activity in many of their western home plans.
For the most part, farm housing needs and preferences varied to
such an extent that it would be impossible to draw up standard plans
incorporating all the features considered desirable by large groups
of western families. These families agreed, however, that they would
like to have a one-story house with a basement which would provide
for food storage, would have room for a furnace if needed, and that
might even provide for an extra room. The western homemakers
wanted both a front and a back porch-the front one for rest and
relaxation and the back one, preferably enclosed, for work and storage.
Western preferences also were for a window over the kitchen sink,
and a picture window in the living room; and two-thirds of the
families surveyed indicated a need for some sort of a business centera
desk and convenient files-where record-keeping and other business
activities could be organized.
Western families who could not afford all the space they would
like favored a combined kitchen and dining area and a combined living
and sleeping room.
RESEARCH IN FARM ECONOMICS
One of the important services expected from State agricultural
experiment stations is the gathering of facts and the dissemination
of information that will help farmers make most effective use of the
resources at hand. It takes land, labor, capital, and effective management
to produce farm crops. The successful farmer selects crops and
enterprises adapted to local conditions and organizes his farm to
obtain maximum net returns over a period of years. State experiment
station research in agricultural economics is, therefore, designed
to aid farmers in doing a better job in selecting and combining crops
and enterprises and in developing principles that will help farmers
make long-range plans as well as day-to-day decisions. There are
forces and conditions, such as the general level of prices paid and
received, taxation, insurance, foreign trade, roads, development of
large irrigation and drainage projects, and the availability of suitable
credit and its cost, over which the individual farmer has little or
no direct control. Yet all affect his individual economy and his
success in attaining production objectives. Some of the current results
reported by State experiment stations in research in farm economics
are summarized below.
Factors Affecting the Profitableness of Dairy Farming
The Vermont station found that dairy farms, better than average
with respect to size, labor efficiency, and amount of milk sold per cow,
had labor incomes that were $2,248 larger than those whose farms were
below average in all three factors. The station found that dairy
farmers who fertilized and limed their land had higher labor incomes
than those who did not. Farmers using an average of 130 fertilizer
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