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3. At the present price of corn, is it better for the renter 

 to give a third of the crop as rent/ or to pay $2 cash per 

 acre and take all the corn ? 



4. The conditions stated above hold for a county whose 

 corn crop averaged 17^ bu. per acre for the year 1911. What 

 was the average cost of growing each bushel of corn ? 



COST OF GROWING CORN ON SMOOTH LAND 



75. The merchant who does not know the cost of his 

 goods cannot reasonably hope to be successful. The farmer 

 should be as familiar with the cost of producing his farm 

 products as he is with their market prices. 



EXERCISE 



1. Estimate the cost of growing a 30-acre field of corn 

 in the corn belt when (1) a man with a two-horse plow 

 can break 2 A. per day ; (2) a man with a three-horse disk 

 harrow can disk 7-^ A. per day ; (3) a man with a three- 

 horse harrow can harrow 15 A. per day ; (4) a man with 

 planter can plant 12 A. per day ; (5) a man with cultivator 

 can cultivate 5 A. per day ; (6) two men with a wagon and 

 team can gather 3 A. per day ; (7) the com is to be culti- 

 vated 5 times ; (8) a man with a team is paid $3 per day ; 

 (9) a man working alone is paid $1 per day ; (10) thirty 

 cents' worth of seed corn per acre is used. 



2. The yield being 60 bu. per acre, what was the cost per 

 bushel to grow the corn in the above problem ? 



3. At the present price of corn, is it better for the renter 

 to give f of the crop as rent, or to pay $3 per acre for 

 the use of the land ? How much per acre does the owner 

 of the land realize if he receives f of the crop as rent? 

 J of the crop as rent ? 



