COST OF FARMING OPERATIONS 



prairie farming, they are at once successful. 

 The man is thus an important factor. 



TIME REQUIRED FOR CULTURAL OPERATIONS 



The following table will be helpful as 

 showing time required to perform certain 

 operations, since it is a record of labor ac- 

 tually employed on a field of 18 acres of 

 easily tilled land in central Ohio. All labor 

 was employed at prices named, board for 

 man and food for horses being furnished in 

 addition at the prices estimated. The owner 

 of the land furnished the horse for the 

 harvester. 



Plowing 7.5 days at $2 $15.00 



Harrowing 3 days at 2 6.00 



Planting 2 days at 2 4.00 



Cultivating (4 times) 7 days :t 2 14.00 



Cultivating with harvester 6 days at i 6.00 



Husking and cribbing by the job 45-54 



Estimated cost of board 25^2 days 7.95 



Estimated team maintenance 25^2 days 4.90 



$103.39 



According to these figures the cost for 

 labor of raising the crop and the cost of 

 harvesting was almost exactly the same, each 

 being a little less than $3 an acre. 



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