BOOKKEEPING FOR FARMERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16501, 31 July 1919, Page 8

BOOKKEEPING FOR FARMERS.

MAINE FARMERS’ RESULTS. BANGOR, Maine. Efforts are. being made to interest Maine farmers in bookkeeping in connection with their farms. A plan has been in operation in part for some two years and has proved beneficial. Maurice I). Jones, farm management demonstrator, has compiled records 1 where bookkeeping has been in vogue on 1 519 farms scattered through Penobscot, i Kennebec, Hancock, Franklin, anu I Somerset counties. It is found from the bookkeeping statistics that dairy and poultry farming pays best,- retail milk production second, poultry alono third, dairying alone fourth, orcharding fifth, and potato crops alone sixth. Potato raising showed the highest labour income, 1600 dollars, but the greatest individual loss 1200 dollars. The keeping of cows alone showed a maximum labour income of 1300 doi lars, but it carried a risk, as in one instance the loss of dairy cows reached 700 dollars. Keeping hens alone shewed a maximum labour income of 1100 dollars with a maximum loss of 100 dollars. Retailing milk showed a maximum labour income of 1600 dollars, with no loss. Combined dairying and labour income of 1700 dollars, and not one farmer who followed that combination on his farm reported a. loss. ; i