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The Farmer's Business Handbook 



BLOTTER 

 1900 Winter Wheat Field — Five Acres 



Sept. 



8 bushels seed wheat 



500 pounds fertilizer 



Threshing 150 bushels wheat, at 4 cents. 



Board of threshers and horses 



Add labor from work report 



Cost per acre (provisionally) $13.80. 



Cost per bushel(excluding rental). . .46. 



Add rent of land 



Total cost 



Cost per bushel (including rental).. $0,593 

 150 bushels of wheat (a) 90 cents per bus. 



Profit 



Straw ( see page 79) 



$69 00 



89 00 



46 00 



No account has been taken of the value of the 

 straw in this case. It might well offset the value 

 of the barn manures applied, or the value might 

 be added to the profits of the grain, as it has 

 been in the corn field. 



1901 



Oat Field — Five Acres 



April 

 Aug. 



10 bushels seed oats 



Threshing 200 bushels of oats, at 2}4 cents 



Board of threshers and horses 



Add labor from work report 



Cost per acre $6.16 .. 



Cost per bushel (without rental) . . .154. . 

 Add rent of land 



Cost per bushel (including rental)$0.254. . 

 200 bushels of oats, at 30 cents per bushel. 



Profit 



Straw (?) 



$30 80 



50 80 



9 20 



