GRAIN AND HAY FARMING 



maize to a grain market, obviously it cannot 

 be transported without loss when it brings 

 only 50 cents a bushel. On the other hand, 

 two cents a pound may easily be paid for 

 shipping butter which is worth 25 cents a 

 pound. The transportation of $2,000 worth 

 of maize to a railway station ten miles dis- 

 tant is a laborious and expensive operation, 

 but when this same maize is turned into 

 beef or pork, it will transport itself to the 

 station with comparatively little trouble. 

 Notwithstanding the excellent transporta- 

 tion facilities which the farmers of the 

 United States enjoy, 80% of the maize is 

 consumed in the county in which it is raised. 

 Cereal production demands better trans- 

 portation facilities than cotton farming, 

 tobacco growing or the rearing of domestic 

 animals. 



(5) Capital must lie idle much of the 

 time. The self-binding harvester or the hay 

 rake is only used a few weeks, or perhaps 

 more often only a few days, each year. A 

 cream separator or a churn may be used 

 every day in the year. In the first instance, 



