300 MISCELLANEOUS FARM SUBJECTS 



Planting 40 



Cultivating, five times 3.00 



Rolling 25 



Bunching and thinning 7.00 



Hoeing, twice 2.50 



Three irrigations 1.80 



Plowing out beets 2.50 



Topping and piling 7.50 



Siloing, one-fourth of crop 1.20 



Hauling, within 3 miles 6.00 



Depreciation of machinery, etc 1.00 



Total 41.15 



POTATOES. 



(Based on a yield of 150 sacks per acre. Average price for ten years 

 has been 75 cents per 100 pounds.) 



Preparing ground $ 3.50 



Seed, 1,000 pounds, at 75 cents per 100 pounds 7.50 



Planting 75 



Irrigating 1.00 



Cultivating, three times 2.25 



Digging 7.50 



Sacks . 9.00 



Total 31.50 



POTATOES. 



(Based on a yield of 100 sacks per acre. Average price for past tea 

 years, 72.5 cents per 100 pounds.) 



Plowing $ 2.00 



Harrowing 50 



Planting 1.50 



Seed 9.00 



Cultivating 1.50 



Irrigating 1.50 



Sacks 7.50 



Harvesting 6.00 



Marketing 4.00 



Total 33.50 



Water Charges. The amount of water used rather than the 

 number of acres irrigated is now established thoroughly as the wisest 

 and best basis for charging for water. In cooperative or mutual 

 companies such a question does not arise ordinarily, as stock owner- 

 ship entitles an irrigator to his share of the supply run. Where 

 water is sold to irrigators the question is an important one. Charg- 

 ing for the number of acres irrigated has proved wasteful both to 

 consumers and irrigation companies and unjust to the careful irri- 

 gator by requiring him to pay the same amount for the water he 

 uses as his slovenly neighbor pays for twice that amount. Paying 

 for water actually received, and therefore at the same rate for water 



