218 INDIAN CORN CULTURE, 



Planting at 25c. per acre $6.25 



Seed , 1.50 



Double harrowing . . . . , ..." 6.00 



Cultivating 12i days... 37.00 



Total cost $166.25 



Cost per acre 6,65 



Yield per acre, 50 bushels. Cost per bushel in field, 13.3 

 cents. Adding 4 cents per bushel for husking and market- 

 ing, the cost will be 17.3 cents. 



S. B. of Clinton Co., Tnd., in the Indiana 

 Farmer (March 19, 1892), gives the following 

 figures, based on the cost of raising 12 acres of 

 corn : 



Plowing 8 days at $2.50 $20.00 



Preparing ground 3 days 7.50 



Planting 4.00 



Seed 1.00 



Cultivating 10 days at $2.50. 25.00 



Husking 600 bushels at 2ic ISrOO 



Rent of land at $4 per acre 48.00 



Total cost unmarketed $120.50 



Cost per acre 10.04 



At 50 bushels per acre, cost per bushel 20 cents. 



At a meeting of the Oxford (Ohio) Farmers' 

 Club President L. N. Bonham gave the follow- 

 ing itemized statement of the cost of growing 

 a 24-acre field of corn 110 rods long.* 



Breaking stalks. $1.50 



Raking and burning 1 .50 



Plowing ten days 25.00 



Harrowing 2i- days 5.62 



* Farmers' Beview, June 24, 1886. 



