COST OF WHEAT— STOCK. 407 



I have my own thresher, a three-horse endless chain power, 

 and a No. 3 Westinghouse separator. With this I have re- 

 peatedly threshed 500 bushels per day. 



WHAT IT COSTS TO RAISE WHEAT. 



The cost of raising wheat is about as follows : 

 Plowing, per acre, - - - . $1.25 

 Preparing ground, per acre, - - - .75 

 Seed, «... 1.00 



Cutting and stacking, " ... 9.00 



Threshing, »' . . . J^.GO 



Total, I6.G0 



Allowing 20 bushels per acre=33 cents. 

 I can hire the work done at above figures. Wheat has 

 ranged from eighty cents to one dollar per bushel the five years 

 I have been liere. I raised and threshed the first wheat, rye, 

 oats, and barley in the county. 



RYE. 



This grain succeeds well here. I prepare the ground as 

 for wheat. It yields about twenty-five bushels per acre. When 

 sown the 20th of August, it makes good Fall and Winter 

 pasture. I have forty acres now furnishing excellent pasture 

 for milch cows and calves. 



BARLEY. 



Barley yields from tliirty to forty bushels per acre. Oats 

 average from forty to seventy-five bushels per acre. 



CARE OF STOCK. 



My cows are grade, crossed with a Short-Horn bull. These 

 cows make good milkers, and the steers make good beef. My 

 cattle have sheds provided for stormy weather, though many 

 large herds in this county are kept without any shelter, and 

 their only feed is the buffalo grass which they get on the range. 



THE DAIRY. 



I use the Cooley creamers. They are just being intro- 

 duced into this county, to the entire satisfaction of those using 

 them. The creamer is a box in which is placed deep zinc cans. 



