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BULLETIN 716, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



Table II. — TotuJ acreage and prodiictiun of irheat on -25 farms for five years, 

 1912-1916 (Palmer Township, Washinyton County, Ohio). 



Item. 



1912 



Number of farms producing wheat 23 



Acreage of wheat '. 230 



Yield per acre, bushels 14 



Production of wheat, bushels 3,353 



Quantity of wheat used, bushels" 1,932 



Quantity of wheat sold 1, 421 



Receipts from wheat $1, 393 



Price received per bushel SO. 98 



23 



240 



9 



2,184 



1,797 



3>:7 



$375 



$0.97 



21 



164 

 IS 

 2,918 

 2,040 

 87S 

 SI, 040 

 SI. 19 



24 

 254 



18 

 4,616 

 2,536 

 2,080 

 S2,398 

 SI. 15 



1916 



23 



254 



11 



2,540 



1,728 



812 



$1,230 



$1.52 



5-year 

 average. 



23 



228 



14 



3,122 



2,007 



1,115 



$1,288 



$1.16 



a Includes that used for bread, seed, and feed. 



Only about one-half of the farmers raised oats, and statistics show 

 that less of this crop is grown than in former years. The principal 

 i-eason for this is the low yield per acre, which is usually less than 

 30 bushels, a very low feed value per acre. In Palmer Township, 

 where the acreage that can well be devoted, to cultivated crops is 

 somewhat limited, it is a good farm practice to grow crops that return 

 a comparatively high feed value per acre. An acre of corn in this 

 area produced fully 2^ times the feed value that was produced from 

 an acre of oats. Fields with poor stands of grass were sometimes 

 plowed, sown to oats, and seeded again to grass. This practice is 

 followed almost as frequently as that of growing oats in the regular 

 rotation. 



Eye has occupied an unimportant place in the crop acreage of 

 Palmer Township. Only a few of the farmers raised rye, and then 

 only for an occasional year or two. It was usually seeded instead of 

 wheat, but has made very little progress in displacing wheat. 



The other crops included under small grains were grown in small 

 acreages and on scattered farms. They were of little importance to 

 the township as a whole. 



Hay occupied 46 per cent, or almost one-half of the crop acreage. 

 The main hay crop consisted of either clover or timothy, or clover 

 and timothy mixed. The clover and timothy was often still further 

 mixed with bluegrass or redtop, especially if the meadows were of 

 more than two years' standing. 



Such crops as oats, wheat, rj^e, millet, sorghum, cowpeas, and soy 

 beans were occasionally reported used for hay. These occurred as 

 small acreages, and combined they totaled only 4 per cent of the hay 

 acreage. 



Soy beans for hay have grown somewhat in favor with a number 

 of farmers during the period of this survey. One farmer grew 2 

 acres in 1912 and four farmers gi*ew 11 acres altogether in 1916.; 

 Five grew soy beans for hay in 1914, to supplement the main hay 



