Pertinent Agricultural Information

National Agricultural Library

subsistence homesteads

Agricultural production on the Subsistence homesteads has its own peculiar problems. The following information has been condensed from a number of different State and Federal Agricultural Publications. These facts are presented in summary form to be used as a source of information regarding what has been done or is recommended in the various States regarding a number of the agricultural problems which arise in planning subsistence homesteads communities. Field men, members of Sponsoring Committees and others interested in setting up subsistence homesteads will find these data of value in planning their projects. The figures presented, are averages for the most part. It should be kept in mind that actual individual cases vary on each side of the average.

U.S. Department of the Interior

Division of Subsistence Homesteads

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