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jVIarketing Pe.\nut Crop vs. Grazing With Hogs, 1918. 



One acre grazed produced 416 lbs. pork @ 15 cents 



per lb. $ 62.40 



One-half acre harvested at rate 846 lbs. pea- 

 nuts per acre @ 6 cents per lb. $50.76 



One-half acre harvested at rate of 732 lbs. hay 



^ $15.00 per ton 5.49 



$56.25 



Cost of harvesting and threshing (1 acre) : 



Man hours: 



Plowing up peanuts, 5V2 hrs. @ 50 cents 



per day .27 



Gathering peanuts 22 hrs. @ 50 cents per 



day 1.10 



Hauling peanuts, 10 hrs. @ 50 cents per 



day .50 



Fixing poles for stacking, 2 hrs. @ 50 



cents per day .10 



Stacking, 10 hrs. (a>. 50 cents per day .50 



Threshing, hrs. @ 50 cents per day _. .30 



Horse hours : 



Plowing up peanuts, 5V> hrs. (fi) $1.25 per 



day .68 



Hauling (team) 5 hrs. (a: $2.00 per dav-- 1.00 

 30.2 bushels threshed (a> 10 cents per bu. 3.02 



$ 7.47 



Sales from one acre, minus cost of harvesting-. $48.78 $ 48.78 



Profit in favor of grazing a crop of peanuts with hogs, 



(fertilizer removed by crop not considered) $ 13.62 



From the above financial statements it is seen that 

 in 1917 grazing the acre of peanuts returned -$36.19 

 more than was received for the crop of peanuts and 

 peanut hay. In other words, the hogs paid their owner 

 the market price for the crop, harvested the crop, and 

 retm^ned a net profit of $36. 19 per acre more than the 

 crop would have sold for on the market. 



The financial statement for the 1918 test shows that 

 there was a balance of -$13.62 per acre in favor of gra- 

 zing the crop with hogs. 



The above statements do not give all of the results 

 that are to l)e derived from the two systems of market- 

 ing the croj). 



A permanent system of agriculture is an ideal to 

 strive for. The removal of all of the plant food from the 

 soil year after j'^ear, by selling the entire crop, can lead 

 to but one result, and that is depletion of the soil. 



In marketing the crop by grazing or selling it is only 

 fair in making a financial statement to debit or credit 

 the field on which the crop was raised with the amount 



