Wear, tear and interest on tools .29 



Rental of land — or interest on its value .-• 1.90 



Total cost per acre, or 20 bushels $7.31 



Averages of other items, gathered from those 

 furnishing the 120 most carefully made reports 

 quoted, are as follows: 

 Average number of years these 120 reporters 



have raised winter wheat in Kansas 19 



Average number of acres raised by them annual- 

 ly during these years 527 



Average value of wheat land per acre-.. ...424. 18 

 Average quantity of seed sown per acre, 



pecks 4.4 



Average yield per acre, bushels 18.2 



Average value per acre of wheat for pastur- 

 age $1.15 



Average value of straw per acre -• . .81 



A digest of the same items of information 

 taken from the interviews with eighty growers 

 in the thirty counties constituting what is known 

 as the "wheat belt", (see map, page 24), which 

 produced 79 per cent, of the ninety-million bush- 

 el crop harvested in 1901, gives averages thus: 



Average cost of plowing (or disking) $1.00 



Harrowing 28 



Seed and seeding .95 



Cost of harvesting and stacking (or shock- 

 ing) 1.48 



Threshing, and putting in bin or car 1.61 



Wear, tear and interest on tools 27 



Rental of land — or interest on its value 2.06 



Total cost per acre, or 20 bushels $7-6$ 



Other averages derived from reports of the 

 thirty wheat-belt counties are as follows: 

 Average number of years the eighty reporters 



have raised winter wheat in Kansas 21 



Average number of acres raised by them annual- 

 ly during each of these years 613 



Average value of wheat land per acre $25.29 



Average quantity of seed sown per acre, 



pecks 4-4 



Average yield per acre, bushels 18 5 



Average value per acre of wheat for pastur- 

 age $1.07 



Average value of straw per acre - $ So 



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