YIELDS AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER CROPS 23 



2 hay crops, 30 tons at $12 $360 



105 bushels of seed at $6 630 



Straw 50 



Fourth cutting, 12 tons at $12 144 



Total, one year's return $1,184 



A Buffalo county, Nebraska, farmer sold from a year's 

 growth on 22 acres, hay worth $328.12, seed $1000, and 

 straw $150. 



A Montgomery county, Kansas, farmer reports to the 

 author a return of $106 per acre in one year from hay, 

 seed and straw. 



Another report was sent in 1904 from southern Kan- 

 sas, of five cuttings, making 8 1-2 tons per acre, which 

 sold at $5 per ton in the field. 



SOME REPORTS OF YIELDS 



A farmer of Harvey county, Kansas, reported in 1903 

 two hay crops and one seed crop, the hay, seed and straw 

 returning more than $50 per acre from a field that two 

 years before had failed to yield enough corn to justify 

 its gathering. 



Sixteen acres in Reno county, Kansas, are reported to 

 have pastured in 1904 four hundred pigs and yielded one 

 cutting of hay of over 16 tons. 



An alfalfa field of eleven acres in Washington, on the 

 bank of the Columbia river, under irrigation, produced 

 in 1 90 1 over 100 tons of hay. 



Former Governor W. D. Hoard, of Wisconsin, reports 

 from three-fifths of an acre on his farm in the southern 

 part of the state, four cuttings in one season, yielding 

 5.7 tons of hay. 



