GERMINATION SEEDS, GROWTH SEEDLINGS 191 



12. What will be the cost of plowing a 40 acre 

 field at the same rate ? 



18. If a man and team can seed 8 acres per day 

 how long will it take to seed a 40 acre field? What 

 will it cost at $2 per day ? 



14. At 50c per acre what will be the cost of cutting 

 this crop? 



15. It will cost about $0.25 per acre to stack the 

 grain. Find the cost of stacking. 



16. AVhat is the threshing bill at 2 cents per bushel ? 

 Find the entire cost of the crop. 



17. If the yield has been 20 bushels per acre, worth 

 90 cents per bushel, how much has the farmer made 

 over and above the entire cost of labor ? 



18. How much has he made if the crop has yielded 

 25 bushels per acre, worth $0.80 per bushel? 



19. Have any items of the cost of producing this 

 wheat been omitted? If so, what? Should we allow 

 for them ? Let us do so and find the result. 



20. With a crop of 50 bushels of shelled corn per 

 acre, worth $0.40 per bushel, work the same series of 

 problems, omitting such as do not apply to corn raising. 



LESSON LVIII 



JUDGING AND SCORING SEED CORN 



Selecting seed corn. We must now make a careful 

 selection of our seed corn stored away last autumn. It 

 is our plan to plant ten acres field number 1, on our 



