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Planting li days $3.75 



Seed (3 bushels). . . , 2.00 



Replanting 3.25 



Rolling 2 days 5.00 



Cultivating 3 times, long way, 3 days 15.00 



Cultivating 2 times, short way, 41 days 22.50 



Thinning 3.50 



Total cost of cultivating $68.62 



Husking 8 days, 4 men, 2 teams 56.00 



Tax on land 24.25 



Interest on land or rent 120.00 



Total cost unmarketed . '. $268.87 



Cost per acre in crib 11.87 



Cost to cultivate and gather per acre 5.20 



There were 60 bushels per acre, or a total of 1,440 



bushels, worth at husking time $360 00 



Worth per acre 15.00 



Cost per bushel, 18.6 cents. 



No allowance is here made for the fodder, 

 which is worth as much as average hay if 

 properly cured. 



The Practical Farmer a few years ago pub- 

 lished a number of articles on the cost of grow- 

 ing corn. Arnong the contributors to this sub- 

 ject was Mr, T. B. Terry, who gave the figures 

 of the cost of the crop of Mr. E. A. Peters of 

 Central Ohio. They are as follows: 



Plowing 30 acres, 20 days at $3 $70.00 



Harrowing and working land 15 days 45.00 



Planting, 3 days at $4 12.00 



Seed, 5 bushels at 60c 3.00 



Cultivating, 20 days at $3 60.00 



Cutting 750 shocks at 7o. each 52.50 



Husking 2,400 bushels at 4c 96.00 



