TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 523 



If it be assumed, as in previous plans, that 8 acres of the farm are de- 

 voted to huildings, j-ards, garden, orchard, and permanent pasture for the 

 cows, colts, and calves, there will remain 72 acres to fit into this four- 

 year rotation. These 72 acres, therefore, may be divided into four 18- 

 acre fields and each year there will be grown (1) 18 acres of corn, (2) 

 18 acres of corn, (3) 18 acres of oats, and (4) 18 acres of clover. The corn 

 will be fertilized each year with about 400 pounds of steamed bone meal 

 per acre. 



LIVE STOCK TO BE KEPT AND YIELDS TO BE EXPECTED. • 



As in previous plans, it is assumed that the stock kept on the farm 

 will be 4 "brood mares, 2 colts, and 2 cows. It has already been shown 

 that to feed the fixed stock on the farm about 23,940 pounds of grain will 

 be needed. In feeding the grain and for seed all the oats grown on the 

 farm, about 720 bushels, will be needed, and about 45 bushels of corn in 

 addition. The roughage and bedding for stock will consist of corn stover 

 and oat straw. The clover may be handled either for seed or hay. 



As the hay crop in the hands of the ordinary farmer is a little more 

 certain than the seed crop, this phase will be considered in making the 

 final calculations. 



The average yield expected will be as follows: 



Corn, 36 acres, at 60 bushels per acre bushels. .2,160 



Oats, 18 acres, at 40 bushels per acre bushels.. 720 



Clover hay, IS acres, at 2 tons per acre tons. . 36 



FINANCIAL EETUBNS TO BE EXPECTED. 



Of the oats, 40 bushels will be used for seed and all the remainder fed. 



Of the 2,160 bushels of corn, all but 45 bushels will be sold. All the 

 clover hay wull be sold. The average gross returns of the farm from all 

 sources should be about as follows for the four-year rotation: 



Corn, 2,115 bushels, at 50 cents $1,057.50 



Clover hay, 36 tons, at $8 288.00 



2 colts, at $50 each 100.00 



2 calves, at $5 each 10.00 



Total $1,455.50 



The amount of bone meal bought for the corn will be increased from 

 5 to 7 tons, which will cost about $175, leaving $1,280.50 as a return for 

 the year's expenses, interest, and labor. 



If the clover were harvested for seed instead of hay the returns for the 

 clover crop would be $324 instead of $288, and in addition all the clover 

 straw, which is worth as a fertilizer practically $8 a ton, would be left on 

 the land as a permanent improvement instead of being sold off for hay. 



The gross returns secured by thus adopting a four-year rotation instead 

 of a three-year rotation and by increasing the acreage in corn have been 

 increased from $130 to $160 over plan 1 and from $80 to $116 over plan 

 2, while as compared with the farm as at present planned the returns are 



