40 A MANUAL ON THE HOG. 



Corn 70.00 per cent. 



Sweet potatoes 24.67 " 



Peanuts ... 70.71 per cent. 



Chut as . .33.65 " 



Peas 57.65 



" Consolidating the analyses we have, of flesh and fat- 

 producing material, in 



Corn 80. 1 per cent. 



Swret potatoes 31.27 



Peanuts 96.71 per cent. 



Chufas.. ..63.05 



Peas 60.55 



"An extended and careful inquiry of our oldest plan- 

 ters, as well as personal operations, give the average 

 of crops in Florida : Corn, 10 bushels to the acre ; sweet 

 potatoes, 100 bushels ; peas, 10 bushels ; peanuts, 25 

 bushels ; chufas, 100 bushels. The factors of the prob- 

 lem, then, are known, and we have, per acre, in units of 

 pork-producing value : 



Corn 801.50 



Sweet potatoes 3,127.00 



Peanuts 2,417.25 



Chufas 6,305.00 



605.50 



11 Assuming that in each case the cost of production per 

 acre was the same, but such is not the case, as several 

 carefully conducted experiments this and last year, on the 

 above crops, gave as the cost of an acre : 



Corn .$5 00 i Peanuts $6 00 



Sweet potatoes. 5 25 j Chufas 3 75 



Teas 4 50 



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:< The new lectors introduced, and the cost per bushel 

 is . 



T < ft. 



Corn 50 cents. 



Peanuts.. ...24 



cents. 



Chufas 3f 



Sweet potatoes 



Peas 45 



4 * Taking corn as the unit value, we find : 



One acre of chufas equivalent in food value to 7.8 acres of corn. 



One acre of peanuts equivalent in food value to 3.01 acres of corn. 



One acre of peas equivalent in food value to 0.75 acres of corn. 



One acre of sweet'potatoes equivalent in food value to .3.9 acres of corn. 



" While, as to cost- 



10 bushels corn cost as much as 133 bushels of chufas. 



10 bushels corn cost as much as 20.8 bushels of peanuts. 



10 bushels corn cost as much as * 8. bushels of peas. 



10 bnphels corn cost as much as 95 bushels of sweet potntoes." 



