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the forage crops somewhat, the return was $1.03 per bushel. 

 In other words, the average return for the forage crop consumed 

 during the time that the hogs w^ere eating a bushel of corn was 

 73 cents. This allows full cost value of the corn of 60 cents. 



In another instance the corn and cowpeas were planted to- 

 gether as described, and 152 head of w^estern lambs were pur- 

 chased the middle of September and turned into the cornfield. 

 They grazed out the undergrowth, not bothering the ears of 

 corn, and in 86 days they had gained 27 pounds, making a profit 

 of $1.40 per head, after charging full value for all the feed con- 

 sumed, freight, commissions, interest on investment, loss and 

 other items of expense. In other words, the profit on the lambs 

 was as great per acre as the profit on the corn. 



Another farmer found that better utilization came to him 

 by handling his w^ieat in such a way that he doubled the sale 

 value of it. At threshing time, instead of hauling his wheat to 

 the mill and getting 75 cents a bushel for it, he hauled it to the 

 barn where he graded and cle^aned it, and then sold it for seed at 

 $1.50 a bushel. In other w^ords, the work put in on this pure- 

 bred Fultz wheat used in preparing it for market was from one- 

 fifth to one-tenth as great as the labor expended in producing the 

 wheat, while in each case the receipts for the two classes of labor 

 were the same. In other words, he would have received only 

 75 cents a bushel if he had sold from the threshing machine, and 

 for the extra few days' labor of getting it in good seed form he 

 received the^same price per bushel. Profit on the last kind of 

 labor was far greater than that on the first. 



THE BOYS' DEPARTMENT AT FARMERS' WEEK, 1914. 



(R. S. Besse, in charge.) 



Four years from this dale it is not impossible or even im- 

 probable that Farmers' Week of the old type will take on a new 

 aspect in which farm boys will predominate. Indeed, we would 

 not go far wrong to believe that even now in the process of evo- 

 lution can be seen the "Making of Farmers' Week a Boys' 

 Week." Even in the face of the fact that Farmers' Week this 

 year was the very biggest arid best ever held in the State, those 

 attending and associated with the work agreed that the influence 

 of the "Boys' Department" was felt. 



