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Cooperative Marketing, H. Mccullough
Cooperative Marketing, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
”In marketing farm products, cooperatively or otherwise, certain things must be done. Most of these necessary steps are included in the following:
1. The commodity must be assembled or concentrated.
2. It must be graded or standardized.
3. Part of the crop must be warehoused or processed.
4. The market operation must be financed.
5. Transportation must be provided
6. Expert salesmanship must be brought into play.
7. The commodity must be distributed to consumers.
”The above mentioned steps coming between the growing and the consuming of a crop are at present largely conducted by the so-called middlemen. By looking …
Cropping Systems, H. Mccullough
Cropping Systems, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
Many different cropping systems are used in South Dakota. In part of the “West-River” country it is customary to raise equal acreages of corn and small grain diced in on the corn stubble the next year. Very little plowing is done. In Spink County, typical of the north-western part of the State, there are three acres of small grain for each acre in corn. Surveys in Brown County and Jones County in 1921 show very different cropping systems prevailing in those counties.
High Crop Yields And Profits From Farming, H. Mccullough
High Crop Yields And Profits From Farming, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
Crop yields have a direct bearing upon farm profits. Granting that there are many factors affecting crop yields and crop prices that are beyond the control of the individual farmer, it is still true that those men whose crop yields are somewhat above the average for their localities make the largest profits. This is true in all parts of the country and for all crops as is shown by the following table covering 3130 farms in 12 states. This table shows the average labor income on farms having poor crop yields, medium or average yields and good crop yields. In …
Efficient Livestock And Profits From Farming With A Special Reference To Economical Pork Production, H. Mccullough
Efficient Livestock And Profits From Farming With A Special Reference To Economical Pork Production, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
Sales of livestock and of livestock products constitute an important part of the receipts on most South Dakota farms. Records on 126 farms in Brown and Jones Counties in 1921 show that in brown County 37 percent and in Jones County 80 percent of the cash receipts were from these sources. South Dakota is so far from the terminal markets that nearly all of the roughage and a large part of the coarse grain produced in the State is fed to livestock and marketed in the form of beef, pork, butterfat and eggs. It follows that, on any particular farm, …
Home Supplies Furnished By The Farm, H. Mccullough
Home Supplies Furnished By The Farm, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
One hundred fifty years ago a farm family raised practically all of its food and made most of its clothing as well as the simple tools that were used in farm work. Then came the opening up of the West, the building of railroads and the invention and general use of modern farm machinery. Crain, livestock and livestock products were raised in large quantities and sold. Part of the money from these sales was used to buy the clothing, household equipment and food which had previously been made or raised on the farm. No one today would care to go …
Farm Record Keeping And Application Of Business Principles To Farming, M. Benedict, Mccullough
Farm Record Keeping And Application Of Business Principles To Farming, M. Benedict, Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
How to make his farm return enough profit for a wholesome, worth while living and provide for moderate saving is the problem confronting every farmer to-day. Every farm family wants a comfortable home, schooling for the children, electric lights, running water, and the other comforts of life, but usually these things cannot be had unless the farm is made to pay as a business proposition. Farming is not and never has been a means of getting rich quickly or easily. It is a substantial and necessary occupation offering many advantages. On the other hand, it seldom has paid the farmer …
Farm Layout And Field Arrangements, H. Mccullough
Farm Layout And Field Arrangements, H. Mccullough
SDSU Extension Circulars
Farm layout involves the location of the fields with respect to the farmstead and public highways, the size, shape and number of fields, and the location of hog-lots, feed yards, etc. In arranging or re-arranging a farm layout the most important considerations are convenience and economy of operation. An ideal farm layout is so arranged that there shall be a minimum of time consumed, no retracing of steps and no lost motion in doing the routine work of the farm.
Co-Operative Wool Marketing In South Dakota, J. Holmes
Co-Operative Wool Marketing In South Dakota, J. Holmes
SDSU Extension Circulars
During 1918 and 1919 several of the counties of the state, through the help of their farm bureaus and county agricultural agents, assisted sheep raisers .in marketing their wool cooperatively by the county wool pool system. This method afforded a great many advantages over the old system of each sheepman marketing his wool privately to county buyers, in that it made possible selling on a grade basis, assembling the wool in car lots, and in many other respects reduced the expense of marketing considerably. However, by the spring of 1920 it had become evident that the county pooling system had …
The Community Meat Ring, J. M. Brander
The Community Meat Ring, J. M. Brander
SDSU Extension Circulars
Fresh meat regularly and at reasonable prices” is what a rural community in Douglas county has adopted as its slogan. To have fresh meat whenever desired from farm butchered livestock is too often considered practically impossible on account of the rather limited amount of fresh meat that a family could use before the meat spoils. To get it regularly from a butcher shop involves added time aside from the fact that very high prices are charged. The salting, curing, smoking, and other methods of meat preservation are practiced to a certain extent by farmers throughout the country, but supplies of …
Farming As A Business, W. A. Ostrander
Farming As A Business, W. A. Ostrander
SDSU Extension Circulars
This bulletin is a copy of an account book kept by a farmer in South Dakota covering his farm business in 1917-18. It also shows how he summarized it to find the strong and weak points of the business. The purpose of this bulletin is to show how a farm account book can be summarized with but a record of the sales, expenses and inventories. All figures used in the summaries are taken from the record of sales and expenses and the inventories.