COST OF PKODUCTIOK 



THIS is a subject of vital interest to the cultivator. 

 It is indeed the great practical question in husbandry, 

 to which all others are justly considered subordinate. 

 When the farmer has harvested his crop, it is his first 

 concern to know what every bushel of grain has cost 

 him. Whether his yield is fifty bushels per acre, or 

 one hundred and fifty, is doubtless a matter of some 

 consequence, and one which he is likely to under- 

 stand ; but whether it has cost him twenty-five cents 

 a bushel, or seventy-five cents, is a matter of still 

 higher moment, and a question far too important to 

 be settled upon any principle of guess-work, as it too 

 frequently is. 



To be accurately posted on this point is neither 

 impossible nor difficult, and is moreover quite indis- 

 pensable to the success of the farmer as a business 

 man. Though a large yield of corn, nay, even the 

 largest yield of his town or county, is to every enter- 

 prising cultivator an object of commendable ambi- 

 tion ; yet, when the object is achieved, the value to 

 him of such yield depends, after all, upon what it has 



