66 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Drawing to mill $4 00 



Two hands and one horse four days, making syrup 10 00 



Fuel 8 00 



Use of mill 4 00 



Total $40 00 



Cr.— By 160 gallons svrup at 40c $G4 00 



Cost ." 40 00 



Profit per acre $24, 00 



Or 160 gallons syrup at 25 cents per gallon. 



If a farmer should get his syrup made on shares, the cost, according to 

 the above account, of raising and drawing to the mill, if near by, would 

 be $18. 



Receives 80 gallons svrup $32 00 



Cost .■ 18 00 



Profit per acre $14 00 



Or 80 gallons syrup costing 22^ cents per gallon. 



Prof. Nash. — This statement looks fair, except the sum for the use of the 

 land. 



Solon Robinson. — That is worth what it will bring in market, and the 

 sum named is above what you can rent millions of acres of land at on the 

 prairies of Illinois. But here is another statement, made by Ransom 

 Bartle, of Independence, Iowa, where the use of land is stated much 

 higher — too high. 



PROFITS OF SORGHUM CONTRASTED WITH CORN AND WHEAT. 

 Corn. Cr. 



500 bushels $100 00 



Stalks 10 00 



$110 00 



Corn. Dr. 



Use of land $20 00 



Plowing same 10 00 



Marking and planting 5 00 



Seed for same 1 00 



Tending same 15 00 



Harvesting same 25 00 



Marketing same 25 00 



101 00 



Profits on ten acres $9 00 



Wheat. Cr. 



170 bushels wheat, 55 cents. . .' $93 50 



Straw 6 50 



$100 00 



Wheat. 



Use of land 



Plowing same 10 00 



Seed 



Seeding and harrowing. 



Cutting 



Binding and shocking.. 

 Drawing and stacking . . 



Threshing 



Marketing 



36 00 



Profits on wheat $14 00 



