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House and farm buildings worth $4,000. 

 Farm implements worth $1,000. 

 Forty acres in corn yielding 60 bushels per acre. 

 Fifteen acres in wheat yielding 20 bushels per acre. 

 Five acres in yard and gardens. 

 Ten acres in alfalfa yielding four tons per acre. 

 Ten acres in pasture. 



One man does practically all the work; there are four in the family. 

 Three calves are sold at $20 each. 

 Twenty-four pigs are sold at $250. 

 Fifty chickens are sold at $1.00 each. 



Eggs and butter keep up the grocery bill and afford spending 

 money for household necessities. 



Four hundred bushels of corn are sold at 60 cents. 

 Two hundred and fifty bushels of wheat are sold at $1.00. 

 Twenty tons of alfalfa are sold at $20.00 per ton. 

 All feeds and seed are raised on the farm. 



Not counting the rental value of the homestead or the 

 value of food produced on the farm for family use, what is 

 the farmer's labor income, after deducting 5 per cent for 

 interest on the capital invested? 



2. Record of a crop rotation. The following is an actual 

 record of a ten-acre field in a four-year crop rotation.* 



(1) Clover sown in wheat in March. 



Number of bushels 1 



Cost of seed $6.50 



Cost of labor 1.25 



(2) Wheat cut in July. Threshed and sold. 



Yield, bushels 200 



Value of yield $160.00 



Total cost of labor 17.50 



(3) Pasture clover in fall. 



Number head of stock 5 



Number of months 2 



Income from pasture $12.00 



*Taken from the Author's One Hundred Lessons in Agriculture. 



