210 COST AND PROFITS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



COST OF PRODUCTION AND PROFITS. 



In a matter of this kind it is difficult to give 

 anything but approximate figures. Location, 

 proximity to market, ability to get fuel, soil, and 

 manure, the cost of labor, etc., are all factors 

 that play an important part in making an estimate 

 as to the actual cost of producing the crop. In 

 making an estimate it will be necessary to take 

 into consideration the value of the ground, the 

 cost of houses, and in fact everything connected 

 with the work, just as a commercial man would 

 consider all phases of his business in any effort at 

 determining profit and loss. It will be best to 

 make the estimates on a definite number of plants, 

 as it is easier to figure from this standpoint, as 

 a matter of fact, that the cost of production will 

 be relatively less for ten thousand plants than it 

 is for five thousand. The same will hold true as 

 we decrease the number of plants that is, five 

 thousand can be grown at relatively less cost than 

 one thousand. There are a number of reasons 

 for this, chief of which is the fact that the more 

 plants there are the more possible it is for the 

 .grower to so arrange all of his operations as not to 



