FAEM PRACTICE IIS" PRODUCTION OF HAY. 



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Table XVIII. — Cost of man and horse labor, repairs, interest, and depreciation on 

 machinery for haying operations. 





52 farms in Steuben County, N. Y. 



37 farms 



in "Washington County, 

 Pa. 



Operation. 



Farms 

 report- 

 ing each 

 opera- 

 tion. 



Cost. 



Farms 

 report- 

 ing each 

 opera- 

 tion. 



Cost. 





Per 

 day. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 

 ton. 



Per 

 day. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 

 ton. 



Seeding -with hand seeder 



Seeding with wheelbarrow seeder. 

 Average for seeding 



17 

 13 

 30 

 52 

 29 

 52 



52 



$2. 052 

 2.958 

 2.553 

 5.170 

 4.225 

 4.397 



8.290 

 24. 635 



$0,041 

 .091 

 .065 

 .578 

 .349 

 .253 



1.038 

 2.283 



$0. 027 

 .060 

 .042 

 .385 

 .233 

 .168 



.692 

 1.520 



11 



$2.26 



$0. 048 



$0. 031 



11 



37 

 21 

 37 



37 



2.26 

 5.920 

 5.261 

 4.623 



8.980 

 27. 024 



.048 

 .563 

 .414 



.294 



1.495 

 2.814 



.031 

 .360 





.266 





.188 



Loading, hauling, and putting 



.959 





1.804 











Table XIX. — Actual cost of producing 4,047 tons of hay on 52 farms in Steuben County, 

 N. Y.\ and 2,201 tons on 37 farms in Washington County, Pa. 





Cost of man and horse labor, repairs, interest, 

 and depreciation on machinery. 



Item of cost. 



52 farms in Steuben 

 County, N. Y. 



37 farms in Washington 

 County, Pa. 





Per acre. 



Per ton. 



Per acre. 



Per ton. 













Seeding 



$0. 031 



.578 



.181 



.253 



1.038 



■ . 012 



$0. 021 

 .385 

 .121 

 .168 

 r V .692 

 .008 



$0. 035 



.563 



.270 



.294 



1. 495 



$0. 022 

 .360 



Tedding 



Raking 



.173 



.188 

 . 959 



Repairs, interest, and depreciation on hay loaders. 











Seed 



2.093 



.620 



4.801 



1.395 



.430 



3.204 



2. 657 



.533 



6. 324 



1.702 



. 343 



4. 055 







Total 



7. 514 5- 002 



9. 516 



6.100 











COST OF BALING HAY. 



Only a small per cent of the hay producers in the areas surveyed 

 own their own hay presses. Most of the market hay is baled by the 

 country buyer and shipper, or else by custom balers. The customary 

 price for baling is $1.50 per ton, and often the hay grower is expected 

 to furnish one or two pitchers and board the press crew of three or 

 four men. With the ordinary crew this brings the cost of pressing 

 up to about $2 per ton. 1 



COST OF HAULING TO MARKET. 



It is almost impossible to determine the average cost of hauling 

 hay to market without making special time studies, since hay is 

 marketed in quantities varying from a ton to a carload. This opera- 

 tion is usually performed by farm man labor and horse labor, and 

 not by those making a business of hauling, as is the case in the 

 | Middle West, where hay is grown on a more extensive scale. The 



1 Considerable' information secured in this study on the management of baling crews and the cost of 

 I baling will be published in other bulletins. 



