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BULLETIN 943, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the winter wheat than in the spring wheat areas. The highest cost 

 per acre for tractor use occurred in Keith County, Nebr., where 

 over 50 per cent of the men interviewed used the tractor. In this 

 area 30 per cent of the farmers used the tractor for harvesting wheat 

 with the binder and 4 per cent used the tractor for heading wheat. 

 (See fig. 11.) 



USE-COST OF OTHER FARM MACHINERY. 



The items making up the total charge for use of "other farm 

 machinery" include taxes and insurance, interest on investment, 

 depreciation, and the annual maintenance repairs for this machinery. 

 The total annual farm charge for the use of machinery has been 

 divided between the crop and live-stock enterprises on the farm in 

 proportion to the number of horse hours of work required in their 

 production. In a few instances farm machinery was hired for use 

 in producing the wheat crop and when this was the case the actual 

 cash paid out was considered. 



Table XXVIII. — Use cost of tractor and other farm machinery spring and winter wheat, 



1919 (481 farms). 





Plowing (trac- 

 tor work). 



Disking (trac- 

 tor work). 



• 

 Harrowing 



(tractor work). 



Cutting (trac- 

 tor work). 



An- 

 nual 

 use- 



State and county. 



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 PM 



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 CD 



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cd 



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cost ol 

 other 

 larm 

 ma- 

 chin- 

 ery. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



North Dakota: 



7.7 

 12.8 



15.0 



25.6 

 11.9 



9.0 

 12.5 

 20.0 



10.0 



in. 7 



31.6 



6.7 

 17.1 

 47.8 



1.1 

 1.1 



1.0 



1.1 



1.2 



.9 

 1.1 

 1.1 



1.2 

 2.0 

 1.6 



.7 

 1.3 

 .9 



SI. 36 

 1.30 



1.34 



1.37 

 1.31 



1.36 

 1.59 

 1.28 



1.30 

 1.46 

 1.50 



.97 

 1.43 

 1.34 





















$1.50 





5.1 



2.5 



10.3 



4.8 



3.1 

 3.1 



0.7 



.5 



.6 

 .6 



.3 



.8 



$0.45 



.50 



.52 

 .53 



.65 

 .65 















1.98 



South Dakota: 



20.5 



4.8 



0.3 

 .2 



$0.41 

 .26 



7.5 



5.1 

 7.1 



9.4 

 15.6 

 17.1 



0.4 



.2 

 .5 



.5 

 .6 



7 



$0.47 



.50 

 .43 



.49 

 .50 

 .56 



.41 



1.36 



Minnesota: 



1.30 



Traverse County 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Kansas: 



1.43 

 1.15 



Pawnee County 



6.2 



.2 



.21 



1.32 

 1.91 



Missouri: 



6.9 

 3.3 

 7.9 



1.2 



.7 

 .8 



.60 

 .60 

 .73 









6.9 .7 



1.51 





3.3 



5.3 



.3 

 .3 



.25 

 .30 







1.77 



St. Charles County 



Nebraska: 



10.5 



6.7 



2.9 



30.4 



.6 



.4 

 .6 

 .3 



.45 



.48 

 .50 



.48 



2.13 

 1.23 

















L93 



Keith County 



30.4 



.8 



.48 



4.3 



.4 



.35 



1.68 



LOSS ON ABANDONED WHEAT ACREAGE. 



On some farms visited a part of the acreage seeded to wheat was 

 not harvested because the crop was destrayed or in such condition 

 that it was not worth cutting. All costs for labor, seed, manure, 



