their off-farm income and to take advantage of the full range of

services available to them in their community. It would seem safe

to assume that small farm research or research not specific to size

that was beneficial to farms in cells "A" and "B" would be adopted

by them; only minimal effort would be needed to package the info-

mation for their use.

 Determining Success

 Based on the above rationale and clientele, the following factors

 can serve as means of quantifying the success of any small farm effort

 by the agricultural science and education community:

 1. The number of small-scale farm families whose real earned farm

 and nonfarm income increases--greatest emphasis would be given

 to raising all farm families above the poverty level.

 2. Number of small-scale farmers who perceive that their quality

 of life has improved.

 3. Reduction in underemployed rural human resources.

 A long-term goal, given the stated rationale of a small farm pro-

gram, might be expressed as follows: There are few in society who

want to farm that are prohibited from earning at least a part of their

income from farming as a result of artificial barriers to entry, such

as a lack of available technology or access to technical advice, and

there are few, if any, producers of agricultural products whose earned

farm and nonfarm income is below their aspiration, given their pro-

pensity to work (ideally this would be about equal to or greater than

the median ncnmetropolitan income level). The specification of the