PRIMARY RESULTS 



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(e) Wheat 



The cost of wheat growing is illustrated by figures ascer- 

 tained on four farms. The principles on which the calcula- 

 tions are based, and the methods followed in making 

 them, have been described already in connexion with the 

 barley crop, and call for no further statement in detail. 

 As with the barley, the total cost of the wheat crop has been 

 charged against the grain only. 



TABL XX. Analysis of tfa&st of tfa Wheat Crop per Acre 1917- i8 



(/) Oats 



The oat costs given in Table XXI relate only to spring 

 oats. 



It will be noted that the whole of the cost in all the 

 foregoing Corn Tables (i.e. barley, wheat, and oats) is 

 attributed to the grain alone. At first sight it would seem 

 desirable to make some division of cost as between grain 

 and straw, and a variety of methods by which to do this 

 suggest themselves. Thus, a division may be made by 



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