218 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
Pigntina at Ze Meriaere A. i) cea elwaas ashes $6.25 
et tan ee Ocienlin REE to de since Sk? ome ae eS eee 1.50 
IGM DIG: NAPho WS. vit oa corn se poe ee Bee are 6.00 
ultivanine TSF Gays: vs 3.2 ea waste mes Ob ae ge 37.00 
TOL COSE soso ged a cae a bean epee eee $166.25 
Gash’ per sere ΡΣ ie ACU exes oi eee 6.65 
Yield per acre, 50 bushels. Cost per bushel in field, 13.3 
cents. Adding 4 cents per bushel for husking and market- 
ing, the cost will be 17.3 cents. 
S. B. of Clinton Co., Ind., in the Indiana 
Farmer (March 19, 1892), gives the following 
figures, based on the cost of raising 12 acres of 
corn: 
Pigwine 8 Ways αὐ φρο θη. τς ΡΥ anes ves soe are ene 20.00 
Preparing ground 3 days. ...5........-++..-- eres 7.50 
591 πΠ|Π| προ ρον προς τς Sas inp eee Visi meee sean heme 4.00 
SS a te aia Sake Ee cine me cet το τος τευ ιν πόσις sy τ eee 1.00 
Galtivaime 10 days ab wa.00 ve, eee ews ote dest mele aoe 25.00 
Husking 600 bushels at 292. τς oe es tie ee 15.00 
Pent of land a6. $4 per acre 2.09: jo2 te ει δι ee eee 48.00 
Total cost wamarketed 122 λει τοῦς eee ee $120.50 
Cost, Per BEPC cc bose shy eta y,- 74 ite tee ke ee 10.04 
At 50 bushels per acre, cost per bushel 20 cents. 
At a meeting of the Oxford (Ohio) Farmers’ 
Club President L. N. Bonham gave the follow- 
ing itemized statement of the cost of growing 
a 24-acre field of corn 110 rods long.* 
Preakine sialke./< . 620 - τ ΤΥ vo Sic κλπ ΄- $1.50 
Raking and burning..........--6 +. eee eee e eee eee eee 1.50 
Plowing ten days........ saa, meses (erat erent ζετο. 25.00 
Harrowing 22 days... να ἡ τε τς cane scede weep ert ens 5.62 
* Farmers’ Review, June 24, 1885, 
