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TABLE 32._FAMILY LABOUR EARNINGS AND NON-FARM INCOME ON COMMERCIAL
SPECIALTY AND OFF TYPE FARMS, PRINCE GEORGE-SMITHERS, 1943-45

Number |} Family i
Area Farm Type of Labour Monae noe
Farms Earnings
$ $ $
Prince: Georges. cis ets fee Sos Forage seed. . 2 2,050 50 2,100
Poultry 6 161
Offiitypes tate aes 2 775 200 975
Mand erhools <i falencsinc. .scawaess Poultry oscar een 1 740 21 761
Of Types. 22... 1 550 335 885
Smithers-Francois Lake........ Vegetable seed. ..... 3 1,127 440 1, 567
Forage seed......... 2 995 390 1,385
Whole milk : 8 2,111 106 2,217
Poultry. 8 242 254 496
Offtivpenscutmeencrr 3 897 150 1,047

Family Farm Surplus*

The average surplus for all farms in the study was $317. As may be seen
from Table 33, there were large variations according to farm type. The non-
commercial types in each area netted the lowest surplus while some of the
commercial specialty types netted the highest. The majority of the farms,
however, fell in the commercial non-specialty types (crop, livestock and
mixed) and the average surplus for these groups was negative; the mixed
farms at Prince George-Vanderhoof earned $71 but the remainder showed
negative surpluses.

TABLE 33.—FAMILY FARM SURPLUS BY TYPE OF FARM,
PRINCE GEORGE-SMITHERS, 1943-45

Family Farm Surplus
Prince George- Smithers-
Vanderhoof Francois Lake
Number . $ Number $
Non-Commercial:
IPant bli eaeeneuaeitear tai nats oeternrerireenae 27 —970 21 —866
SIT OEIC Dina bs See SRGHES Hae DoD eOmioS coupes 21 —840 5 —1,273
Commercial non-specialty:
# 11 —578 5 —439
43 —125 29 —428
45 71 20 —98
Commercial specialty:
Vegetable seeds. 1.0. nil icles tee ee eect select cms etna eee a 3 185
IMOTAPE SECC Satis pacmate ts. .tehtrtie iciecctameNsaclon eects a rai 2 1,331 2 746
VWiidavol vcaawlt hf Pease Dos Saree pine meiokuc Sati asl deiner een an] theron c Gone 8 1, 645
Teoiiatmonpocawa Ne OSenidnnsiecnna aaa Aer Sane 7 —425 8 —513
(Ola? tivaee aanehe cumeo es ce eeaben ous RdLoLtmoo ede eanaE ee 3 —320 3 75

The surplus on the specialty farms amounted to $1,038, $1,645 and $185
on the forage seed, whole milk and vegetable seed farms, respectively. The
poultry farms surpluses were low, being — $425 and —$513 in the two respective
districts. The reason is that those farms did not represent highly organized
efficient poultry producers. Rather they tended to be small farms on which
the poultry enterprise predominated.

1A $700 allowance for living expenditure has been subtracted from farm income to obtain farm
surplus.