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SUCCESSFUL FARMING 



TABLE V.- COST PER ACRE, PRODUCING CROPS. 



Crop. 



Average Cost. 



Barley, fall plowed $8.21 



Clover, cut for seed 6 . 50 



Corn, ears husked from standing stalks 10.44 



Corn, cut, shocked and shredded 15 .30 



Corn, cut, shocked and hauled in from field 10 . 26 



Corn, grown thickly and siloed 19 . 89 



Flaxseed, threshed from windrow 7.50 



Flaxseed, stacked from windrow 7 . 85 



Flaxseed, bound, shocked, stacked, threshed 7 . 28 



Fodder corn, cut and shocked in field 9 . 65 



Fodder corn, cut, shocked and stacked 12 . 36 



Hay, timothy and clover, first crop 5 . 59 



Hay, timothy and clover, two cuttings 7 . 18 



Hay, millet 7.10 



Hay, wild grasses 4.04 



Hay, timothy 3.39 



Hemp 6.74 



Mangels 32.68 



Oats, fall plowed 8.86 



Oats, on disked corn stubble 8 . 88 



Potatoes, machine production 26 .37 



Potatoes, machine production, use of fertilizer 37.72 



Timothy, cut for seed 4 . 43 



Wheat, fall plowed 7.25 



"Minnesota Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 117, page 29. 



TABLE VI. AVERAGE FARM PRICES FOR THE UNITED STATES. 

 FIVE-YEAR PERIODS, 1866-1915.* 



Agricultural Region. 



Total Annual Cost of 



Keeping One Horse. 



Average 5 Years, 1908-12. 



Actual Cost per Hour 



of Work for One Horse. 



Average 9 Years, 1904-12. 



Southeastern Minnesota. 

 Southwestern Minnesota. 

 Northwestern Minnesota. 



$103.27 



100.64 



84.67 



9.72 cents 

 8. 64 cents f 

 8.05 cents 



NOTE. The cost figures shown in this table have been selected from the statistical data of the 

 Division of Farm Management of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. These figures are 

 not estimates, but actual records from a large number of Minnesota farms. The averages are based on 

 records of about 450 horses in each region. The annual cost includes interest on investment, deprecia- 

 tion, harness depreciation, shoeing, feed, labor and miscellaneous expense. Feed is the largest item in 

 the cost of farm horse power, representing on the average 2i to % of the total cost. The cost of horse 

 power per hour ia computed by dividing the total annual cost by the actual number of hours worked. 



* Taken from "Field Management and Crop Rotation," by Parkei. 

 f Seven-year average. 



