COST OF PRODUCING WHEAT. 



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and Grand Forks Counties there is a State hail insurance tax of 

 3 cents on each tillable acre owned. Furthermore, there is an 

 additional tax on all acreage insured, the amount of the assessment 

 to be adjusted at the end of the year in the same manner as mutual 

 fire insurance companies. 



Table XXVII. — Taxes and insurance, spring and winter wheat, 1919 (481 farms). 



State and county. 



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 County 



Saline County 



Keith County 



All winter wheat.. 



Taxes and insur- 

 ance on owned 

 land. 



Per cent 



of farmers 



owning 



land. 



Cost per 

 acre. 



Per cent 

 of farmers 

 reporting 



.62 



Special crop insur- 

 ance. 



100 

 100 



69 



60 



Average 

 cost per 

 acre in- 

 sured. 



SO. 18 

 .21 



.40 



.81 

 .43 



.39 



1.21 

 1.32 

 .42 



.29 

 .15 

 .19 



.74 

 .75 

 1.43 



The largest acre charge for special crop insurance was made in 

 Ford and Pawnee Counties, Kans., and in Keith County, Nebr. In 

 these counties a relatively large hail insurance was carried on the 

 growing crop. (See Table XXVII.) 



USE-COST OF TRACTOR. 



The annual use-cost of a tractor includes repairs, fuel, oil, interest, 

 taxes and insurance, and depreciation. This yearly * cost divided 

 by the total number of days the tractor was used during the year 

 gave the average daily cost of running the tractor. The daily cost 

 multiplied by the number of days the tractor was used on wheat 

 production gave the total tractor use-cost chargeable to wheat. 

 All man labor costs involved hi running the tractor have been included 

 under man-labor requirements and do not appear as a tractor charge. 

 Table XXVIII shows the principal work on wheat performed by the 

 tractor and the normal man-labor requirements and costs per acre 

 for these operations. The use of the tractor was more common in 



