602 Grasses and Leguminous Crops in New York 



Averages for Timothy and Clover Hay — Continued 



Value per ton . 

 Cost per ton . , 

 Profit per ton . 



1912 



11.15 

 9.03 

 2.12 



1913 



$11.35 



8.55 

 2.80 



Profit per man hour . 



Man hours per acre . . 

 Horse hours per acre . 



$0.27 



11.03 

 10.50 



1.37 



10.80 

 10 25 



Cost per acre aside from marketing . 

 Cost per ton aside from marketing . 



$12.11 

 8.41 



Man hours per acre aside from marketing . . 

 Horse power per acre aside from marketing . 



10.17 

 9.74 



The value per ton used in the computation is in most cases farm 

 value, and includes each year some hay of poor quality inventoried 

 at $8.50 or $9 a ton. 



Only five farms showed a loss on the hay account. One farm 

 with a yield of 1.8 tons per acre made a profit of $8.75 per ton. 

 Fourteen farms made a profit per man hour of 50 cents or more. 



The number of man hours per acre varied from 5.76, on a farm 

 that harvested 100 acres with an average yield of only 1 ton per 

 acre, up to 21.5, on a farm with a yield of ly^, tons per acre. The 

 latter farm was also very rough and hilly, and its hay was dis- 

 tributed in several small, rough, irregular fields. The number of 

 horse hours on these two farms were 7.52 and 14.53, respectively. 



In 1913, of 1185.9 tons of hay raised, 78.7 tons were marketed 

 during the same year. Some was held for sale later. The cost of 

 production was separated from the cost of marketing. The use of 

 buildings was charged as a cost of production. All time and 

 charges beginning with the pressing of the hay or the removal of 

 the hay from the mow, and including delivery to car or market, 

 were charged to cost of marketing. 



Most of the hay was sold on the understanding that the buyer 

 should pay for the pressing. All marketing costs were figured on 

 this basis and do not include the cost of pressing. In most cases 



