COST OF PRODUCING WHEAT. 



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results in material benefit to the crops which follow. From each 

 farmer an estimate was obtained relative to the amount of clover 

 seed used and the time required to sow this seed on the average 

 amount of new seeding plowed under each year; also the crops 

 following on this land were noted. With these data available a 

 charge for the value of the clover seed used and the time required 

 to sow it was computed, which amounted to $2.80 per acre. This 

 cost was prorated to the crops receiving benefit. In the case of 

 wheat this charge amounted to SO. 33 per acre. 



Table XXIV. — Straw and manure applied per acre, spring and winter wheat, 1919 



(4$1 farms). 



State and county. 



Per cent 

 of fanners 

 reporting, 



North Dakota: 



Grand Forks County 



Morton County 



South Dakota: 



Spink County 



Minnesota: 



Clay County 



Traverse County 



All spring wheat . . 



Kansas: 



Ford County 



Pawnee County 



McPherson County. . 

 Missouri: 



Saline County 



Jasper County 



St. Charles County.. 

 Nebraska: 



Phelps C ounty 



Saline County 



Keith County 



All winter wheat. . 



72 



Per cent 

 of total 

 acreage 

 covered. 



Rate of 

 applica- 

 tion per 

 acre. 



Tons. 

 10.28 

 6.84 



9.91 



13.67 

 11.41 



10.53 



8.90 

 9.52 

 6.40 



6.50 

 9.43 

 9.24 



8.23 

 7.84 

 4.95 



Cost per 



acre 

 actually 

 covered. 



5.66 

 6.65 



10.84 

 6.44 



6.96 



10.77 

 5.41 

 5.38 



5.44 

 7.96 

 6.94 



2.57 

 2.45 

 3.96 



4.87 



COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER. 



Commercial fertilizer was not used in any of the areas visited 

 except Missouri, and in this State to no appreciable extent except 

 in Jasper County. In this county 97 per cent of the men interviewed 

 used commercial fertilizer on their entire wheat acreage, and 3 per 

 cent used no fertilizer on this crop. The quantity applied averaged 

 100 pounds per acre and the average cost was $42 per ton. 



In St. Charles and Saline Counties commercial fertilizer on wheat 

 was not reported except on one farm in each county, where a very 

 small acreage was fertilized, more as an experiment than as a regular 

 practice. ' 



GRASSHOPPER CONTROL. 





In Ford County, Kans., much wheat was destroyed by grasshop- 

 pers. To control these pests a mixture in the proportion of about 

 20 pounds of bran, 1 pound of arsenic or Paris green, \ gallon of 



