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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



Which combination will be most profitable if the land is rent free? 

 If a rent of 10 bu. per acre must be paid? If one-half of the crop 

 must be paid as rent ? 



2. To illustrate and compare the two points of view on the proper 

 degree of intensity of culture in a given year on a given grade of 

 land and in the production of a given crop, let the following figures 

 represent the returns resulting from the varying expenditures per 

 acre: 



(1) Supposing that the farmer could get all the land he cared to 

 use, rent free, either of the quality found in Field A or Field B, which 

 kind of land would it pay him the better to use ? 



(2) When maize is worth 25 cents per bushel and a rent of $2.50 per 

 acre is charged for the land of either grade, which grade would prove 

 the more profitable to the farmer, and to what degree of intensity 

 should he cultivate it ? 



(3) In case the farmer must give one-third of the crop to the land- 

 lord, as rent, to what degree of intensity would he farm each of the 



