TVPEN OF FARMING 



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TABLE 5. AVERAGE FARM PRICE ON DECEMBER 1 FOR CERTAIN 

 CROPS FOR FIVE YEARS (1907-191 1). 1 WITH COMPARISONS 

 WITH THE IOWA PRICE AS 100 PER CENT. 



1 U. S. Dept. Agr., Yearbook, 1910, pp. 505, 518, 530, 560, 566, and 

 Yearbook, 1911, pp. 524, 535, 546, 569, 573. 



A ton of hay in Massachusetts will buy 25 bushels of 

 corn. In Iowa it would buy only 18 bushels. The same 

 ton would buy 33 bushels of oats in Massachusetts, but 

 would buy only 23 bushels in Iowa. It is easy to see why 

 the New England farmer comes so near to a one-crop 

 system. There are whole townships in New England in 

 which there are no threshing machines. Corn is raised for 

 the silo, and some is raised for grain. Comparatively little 

 small grain is raised east of Syracuse, New York, and still 

 less east of the Hudson River. In this section, shavings 

 and sawdust are largely used for bedding. Straw is too 

 valuable. In 1909, the area of hay grown in New England 

 was five times the total area of all other crops combined. 

 A common practice in New England is to keep nearly all 



