YIELDS AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER CROPS 25 

 SOME MONEY COMFAHISONS. 



A good acre corn crop in Ohio is forty bushels, worth 

 not to exceed $20, after all the labor of cultivating and 

 husking; the stover, if properly cared for, ought to be 

 worth $5, making a total of $25. An Ohio farmer reports 

 a yield of 4}i tons of alfalfa hay per acre, worth for feed 

 as compared with the price of bran about $12 per ton, 

 or a total value of $54, from only one plowing in six 

 years (as long as he let it stand) and with less labor in 

 harvesting than for husking corn and caring for the 

 stover. 



The Utah station reports a cattle feeding test (Bui. 

 No. 61) in which 100 pounds of gain from feeding 

 alfalfa hay cost $3.76; from timothy, $471, and from 

 corn fodder, $6.21. 



A good Kansas or Nebraska corn yield (far above the 

 state average) is 50 bushels per acre, worth ordinarily 

 about $17, with stover worth $3. The farmer should 

 obtain from his alfalfa at least four to five tons, worth 

 CO him for feed for cattle, hogs or sheep from $10 to $12 

 per ton — ^practically two to three times his income from 

 an acre of corn, while tlie cost of production is much less. 



The average year's corn or wheat crop is worth only 

 about $10 per acre, while the average alfalfa crop is worth 

 on the market from $15 to $35, or more, per acre, owing 

 to the market appreciation of the crop, and from $35 to 

 $60 as feed for stock. 



Many thousands of acres in western Kansas and 

 Nebraska are now returning from their alfalfa fields an 

 income of from $15 to $25 per acre where but a few 

 years earlier the land was deemed worthless for agricul- 



