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the other four was corn land. No manure was used on the field. 

 The account stands as follows : 



Breaking two acres, ....... $3 00 



Working four acres twice with double cultivator, at 50 cents 



per acre each time, . . . . . . 4 00 



Harrowing and rolling, ...... 6 00 



Cutting and picking off corn-butts, . . . . 5 00 



Four and a half bushels seed, at $1.00, ... 4 50 



Drilling six acres, at 40 cents per acre, . . . 2 40 



Kent of land, 36 00 



Harvesting, . 12 10 



Total, $73 00 



Cost per acre, $12.16 ; yield, 30 bushels per acre, or 180 

 bushels. 



This wheat was sold from the machine at 95 cents per 

 bushel, bringing $171.00, and gave a profit of $98.00, or $16.33i 

 net profit per acre. The cost per bushel was a fraction over 

 forty cents. 



In 1878 I sowed eleven acres of wheat on a piece of land 

 that I had recently bought at a very low price. It had never 

 been manured, and was in a run-down condition. I do not think 

 it had grown an average of twelve bushels of wheat or thirty of 

 corn for twenty years. In my account I value the land at thirty 

 dollars per acre, which is more than it cost me. The land was 

 in corn, potatoes, sorghum, and beans the previous season, so 

 that we did not break it, but only stirred, harrowed, and rolled, 

 to get it in condition for the drill. The account stands : 



For preparing seed-bed, $22 00 



Seed wheat, ten bushels at 95 cents, . . . . 9 50 



Drilling, 4 00 



Fifty loads of manure, . . . . . 25 00 



Bone-meal, ........ 6 00 



Rent of land, 8 per cent, valuation at $30.00 per acre, . 26 40 



Harvesting, actual cost, ...... 17 10 



Total, $110 00 



The yield was 241 bushels, a fraction less than twenty-two 

 bushels per acre. 



I sold from machine at 95 cents per bushel, and the crop 

 brought $228.95, which, after deducting cost, left a profit 



