Acknowledgment
This monograph was prepared by Dr. Walter J. Quick, Special Agent of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, under direction of Charles H. Winslow, Chief of the Research Division of the Federal Board. Acknowledgment is due to E. H. Thomson, Acting Chief, and Dr. E. V. Wilcox, Agriculturist of the Office of Farm Management, United States Department of Agriculture, for suggestions and data, also to Dr. John Cummings, of the Research Division, for editorial assistance.
General farming is not intensive, but is diversified farming. It is the production of crops of a relatively nonperishable nature which have a wide market, and of the production of live stock and live stock products, in addition, with considerable attention to the production on the farm of food and food supplies for the farm household.