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Table V. — Cost per Acre, Producing Crops.* 



Crop. 



Barley, fall plowed 



Clover, cut for seed 



Corn, ears husked from standing stalks 



Corn, cut, shocked and shredded 



Corn, cut, shocked and hauled in from field . . . 



Corn, grown thickly and siloed 



Flaxseed, threshed from windrow 



Flaxseed, stacked from windrow 



Flaxseed, bound, shocked, stacked, threshed . . 



Fodder corn, cut and shocked in field 



Fodder corn, cut, shocked and stacked 



Hay, timothy and clover, first crop 



Hay, timothy and clover, two cuttings 



Hay, millet 



Hay, wild grasses 



Hay, timothy 



Hemp 



Mangels 



Oats, fall plowed 



Oats, on disked corn stubble 



Potatoes, machine production 



Potatoes, machine production, use of fertilizer 



Timothy, cut for seed 



Wheat, fall plowed 



Average Coat. 



$8.21 



6.50 



10.44 



15.30 



10.26 



19.89 



7.50 



7.85 



7.28 



9.65 



12.36 



5.59 



7.18 



7.10 



4.04 



3.39 



6.74 



32.68 



8.86 



8.88 



26.37 



37.72 



4.43 



7.25 



♦Minnesota Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 117, page 29. 



Table VI. — Cost or Farm Horse Power.* 



Note. — The cost figures shown in this table have been selected from the statistical data of the 

 Division of Farm Management of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. These figures are 

 not estimates, but actual records from a large number of Minnesota farms. The averages are based on 

 records of about 450 horses in each region. The annual cost includes interest on investment, deprecia- 

 tion, harness depreciation, shoeing, feed, labor and miscellaneous expense. Feed is the largest item in 

 the cost of farm horse power, representing on the average M to % of the total cost. The cost of horse 

 power per hour is computed by dividing the total annual cost by the actual number of hours worked. 



* Taken from "Field Management and Crop Rotation," by Parker, 

 f Seven-year average. 



