FARM MACHINERY 



49 



The (iteta requisite for a similar showing with respect to all farm 

 crops and for any certain period are, I think, not to be had ; but 

 we can apply the data presented in the foregoing table to the 

 principal crops of the year 1899, as reported by the Twelfth 

 Census.^ The results are as follows : 



THE COST OF PRODUCING CERTAIN CROPS OF THE YEAR 1899, 

 BY HAND AND BY MACHINE METHOD 



Namk* 



Quantity Produced 



Cost of Production 



Hand method Machine method 



Barley (3) ... 

 Broom corn (5) . 

 Corn (9) . . . . 

 Cotton (10) . . . 

 Hay (12) . . . . 

 Oats (13) .... 

 Onions (14) . . . 

 Peas (15) .... 

 Potatoes (16) . . 

 Rice (17) .... 

 Rye (18) .... 

 Sugar cane (20) . 

 Sweet potatoes (21) 

 Tobacco (22) . . 

 Wheat (26) . . . 

 Total . . . 



119,634,877 



90.947.370 



,666,440,279 



9.534.707 

 84,011,299 



943.389.375 



11,791,121 



9,440,269 



273,328,207 



283,722,627 



25,568,625 



6,441,578 



42,526,696 



868,163,275 



658,534.252 



bushels 



pounds 



bushels 



bales 



tons 



bushels 



bushels 



bushels 



bushels 



pounds 



bushels 



tons 



bushels 



pounds 



bushels 



$15,472,777 



4,107,576 



335,304,865 



58,638,448 

 161,301,694 



90,801,227 



1,535,675 

 3,143,609 



16,373,935 



773,788 



5,369,411 



12,986,221 



41,676,162 



6,424,408 



126,109,309 



$4,227,098 



1,153,650 



220,647,933 



44,898,469 



52,927,118 



37.735,575 

 1,126,759 

 3,190,810 

 7.417,133 

 223.539 

 4.397.803 



5,272.431 



4,167,616 



18,491,859 



66,841,226 



50,019,105 



72,719,019 



The estimated cost of producing these crops by machine method 

 is only 53.7 per cent of the estimated cost of producing the same 

 crops by hand method. In other words, the saving in cost of 



t The data have been modified to show a comparison on the basis of equal 

 quantities produced. If the equal areas be taken instead, the line should read : 

 Cotton : by hand, etc., $9.23 ; $9.42 ; 2.09. 



J The data have been modified to show a comparison on the basis of equal 

 quantities produced. If the equal areas be taken instead, the line should read : 

 Tobacco : by hand, etc., $8.88 ; $33.39 ; 276.33. 



1 Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. I, p. cxxi. 



2 The figures in parentheses are the unit numbers used by the Department of 

 Labor and indicate what set of reports was used as the basis of the estimated 

 cost of production as here presented. The dates of the investigations for hand 

 and for machine methods may be found by reference to the preceding table. 



