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Cooperation In Farm Accounting, H. M. Eliot, F. T. Riddell, Michigan State Grange, Michigan Agricultural College. Experiment Station
Cooperation In Farm Accounting, H. M. Eliot, F. T. Riddell, Michigan State Grange, Michigan Agricultural College. Experiment Station
Individual and Corporate Publications
One year ago the Michigan State Grange entered into co-operation with the Michigan Agricultural College and the United States Department of Agriculture, in the matter of securing data on the costs of farming and income of farms. By this co-operation it was proposed to discover the types of farming that are paying best in Michigan, and to furnish data which farmers may use in changing their farm business to a basis of greater profits. Under this plan the Grange distributed 1,075 account books to their members. These account books contain two parts. One part is for crop records only, and …
Farm Bookkeeping, E. H. Thomson, United States. Department Of Agriculture
Farm Bookkeeping, E. H. Thomson, United States. Department Of Agriculture
Federal Publications
Adequate records are necessary to the efficient management of any business. The farmer, to be successful, must be a business man as well as a grower of crops and producer of livestock. As a business man he should have suitable business records. Farmers, as a rule, are highly individualistic in their methods, and farm business conditions vary widely. Accordingly, ready-made systems of farm accounts seldom bring out all the facts that the farmer ought to know. Systems must be developed to fit each man's requirements, and efforts to shape one's needs according to a prepared system not based primarily on …