PROFITS OF OAT CROP. 451 



year 1877. I grow about the same amount of straw, but my land 

 has lost the elements needed to form the berry. Therefore I 

 find the average of the last seven years only twelve and one- 

 half bushels to the acre, and the price but eighty cents per 

 bushel, leaving a profit of forty-seven cents. I have been 

 troubled twice in the last twenty-one years a little by chinch 

 bugs. 



OATS. 



I usually raise a fair crop of oats, but sometimes they 

 lodge, and cost all they are worth to harvest them. The fol- 

 lowing is their showing : 



Interest on investments, - - _ $3.00 



Plowing one acre, ----- 1.00 



Seed, ------- .55 



Drilling, - .20 



Dragging and rolling, - - - - .35 



Cutting, ----- _ .40 



Binding and shocking, _ _ _ ,70 



Threshing, 4 cents per bushel, - - 1.60 



Hauling six miles to market, - - .50 



Total, ----- - $8.30 



Proceeds, 40 bushels, at 22 cents per bushel, $8.80 



Straw, --_--- 2.00 



Total, ------ $10.80 



Net proceeds=$2.55. 



Oats exhaust the land, therefore I do not raise more than 

 I can consume on my farm. I do not like to work barley in 

 the land, either, and do not raise it. I sow rye occasionally, 

 when I need it for pasture the following Spring. Then I seed 

 it in the Fall. I never raised timothy or sowed any but once, 

 and then I did it for the sake of the Alsike seed in it, and it 

 paid me well. 



CLOVER. 



I have raised considerable red clover in the last twelve 



