71 



These records make the average yield of wheat for the period of 

 twenty- two years, 14.15 bushels per acre; the receipts, exclusive of seed, 

 $11 39 per acre ; cost of cultivation, $9 05 ; and net profit per acre, 

 $2 34. The losses from insects are heavy, partial in seven seasons, and 

 total in the years 1865 and 18G9. In 1855 the yield was 9 bushels per 

 acre ; in 1854, when insects were peculiarly destructive, it was only 

 3 bushels ; and in 1857, little more than 1^ bushels. In five seasons of 

 the twenty-two reported, the average yield was less than 5 bushels. 

 The result is not indicative of much profit in wheat-growing. It is evi- 

 dent that the avoidance of one-half of the losses by chinch-bugs would 

 have doubled the profit actually obtained. 



The record is imperfect, in failing to give the quantity of corn fed to 

 hogs, in addition to 15,844 bushels sold, 2,200 fed to horses, 880 to cows, 

 and 100 to sheep, and also in including the profits of feeding, for beef 

 or pork, in the net profits of corn culture. This method of statement 

 makes the gross receipts for corn $21 39 per acre ; cost of culture, $8 36 ; 

 net profit, $13 03 per acre, which is $1 64 per acre more than the gross 

 product per acre of wheat. Mr. Nelson thus finds that, if the 627 acres 

 of wheat had been planted in corn, with similar results, yielding a net 

 return of $13 03, instead of $2 34, the difference in his favor would have 

 been $6,702 63. 



A Pennsylvania farm. — Mr. Johnson Miller, of War\Yick, statis- 

 tical correspondent of this Department for Lancaster County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, at a late meeting of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 

 read an instructive essay upon farm accounts, from which the following 

 statistics are taken, as representing the operations of a farm of 100 

 acres, belonging to his father : 



Tears. 



1S64 



1865 



1866 



1867 



1868 



1869 



Total 



IKCOllE OF GRAIN SOLD IN SIX YEAUS. 



Wheat. Corn, i Oats. Eye. Total 



$964 80 



314 44 



232 80 



1, 244 89 



478 20 

 517 47 



3, 752 60 



§542 62 

 337 25 

 524 CO 

 435 79 

 309 29 

 659 59 



2, 809 14 



$214 30 

 111 50 

 255 21 

 196 12 

 99 27 

 104 50 



$34 50 

 11 44 

 21 75 

 24 29 

 19 56 

 16 10 



127 04 



$1, 756 22 



774 63 



1, 034 36 



1,901 09 



906 32 



1, 357 66 



, 730 28 



rsCOlIE AND EXPENSES OP LIVE 

 STOCK. 



Income. Expenses. Balance 



$674 60 

 877 35 

 755 20 

 970 18 

 943 70 



4, 420 03 



.?525 00 

 495 00 

 525 50 

 823 22 

 460 79 



2, 829 51 



$349 60 

 382 35 

 229 70 

 146 96 

 481 91 



1,590 52 



IIISCELLANEOUS INCOME. 



Years. 



1864. 

 1865. 

 1866. 

 1867. 

 1868, 

 1869. 



Butter and 



$217 71 

 237 77 

 211 14 

 209 34 

 236 71 

 217 03 



Total. 



1, 329 60 



Hay. 



$50 00 

 53 00 



104 74 

 C6 60 

 47 92 

 68 00 



390 26 



Pasture. 



$28 50 

 13 75 

 17 00 

 10 68 

 9 00 



Miscella- 

 neous. 



$256 78 

 78 22 

 37 50 

 116 20 

 7 73 

 91 54 



ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. 



Farm- 



$381 97 

 638 06 

 600 99 

 863 03 

 314 95 

 358 78 



83 93 587 97 i 3, 157 77 



ETonse- 

 liold. 



$392 85 

 203 65 

 434 79 

 396 54 

 657 69 

 447 13 



Farm- 

 hands. 



$241 03 

 222 99 

 227 51 

 313 52 

 267 52 

 309 07 



2, 532 65 1, 581 64 



