6—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 10. 1965
• Investment Study
(Continued from Page 1)
found that, within the range
of operator earnings consid
cicd, resources 'were general
ly used moie efficiently as
the level of operator earnings
increased However, the great
est gain in efficiency was ob
tained'in moving .fiom $2,500
to $3,500 operator earnings.
For the most part, only mod
erate gains in efficiency were
obtained in moving from the
$4,500 to the $5,500 level.
Thus, the study points out,
farmers have t'wo important
incentives foi increasing out
put larger total earnings;
lower cost per unit of out
put
The report also concluded
that a decline in prices or
an increase in costs generates
a drive ifor faim enlargement,
since one of the ways iby
which farmeis can maintain
a given level of earnings un
der a narrowing cost price
spread is to increase the size
of their farms
spt wias fui ther observed
that only about one-thud of
all commercial farms had
more than SlO.OOO gross sales
in 1959 This, 'was so in spite
of the fact that from 1944
to 1959 the nmrlbei of faims
with more than $lO,OOO gross
sales had increased in num
ber iby 84 percent while faims
with less than $lO,OOO gross
sales had decreased by 35 per
cent
Applying this obsei vation to
dany faims m Pennsylvania,
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it was reported that the ma
jority bad less gross sales
than the programmed faim
had this ranged from 63
percent having less ■ gross
sales at the $2,500 income lev
el ,to 90 percent of the area
farms 'with less gross sales
at the $5,500 level
The authors of this report
studied several other relation
ships that might be of inter
est to farmers 1 in Lancaster
County including 'the effects
of yield and land value
changes on net income. They
concluded that their findings
suggested a continuing trend
of faim enlargement and con
solidation, with many factors
determining the rate at
which these will occur Any
one mtei ested in obtaining
this repoi’t should write to
the UISDA in Washington, D.
C and ask for Agricultural
Repoit No 5.
4-H Club News
SOLANCO 4-H
HOLSTEIN CLUB
The Southern Lancaster
County 4-iH Holstein Club met
Tuesday, night at the Solan
co High School agriculture
room
The meirlbers saw a movie
on showing and judging cows;
accepted an invitation by Lois
Tm daM to hold their next
meeting at the Tindall faim;
and planned that meeting for
Ma> 4 at 730 p m
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