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Ninth Crop— Total cost, $360.80, or $4-10 per acre; sold for $1,722.00, 

 or $19.55 per acre. 



Tenth Crop — Total cost, $453.20, or $5.15 per acre; sold for $909.38, 

 or $10.33 per acre. 



Eleventh Crop— Total cost, $664.64, or $7.53 per acre; sold for 

 $1,082.45, or $12.30 per acre. 



Twelfth Crop— Total cost, $352.00, or $4.00 per acre; not yet dis- 

 posed of. 



Business Management. 



The field is charged with seed bed preparation, seeding, cultivating, 

 heading threshing, hauling to warehouse, hoarding threshers, plowing 

 fire guards around the stacks, and so forth, although all the work was 



Acreage Yields. 



done by the farmer. Wheiat was the crop gTown and during crop years 

 named above, the yield varied from 10 to 28 bushels per acre. The net 

 profit, after counting expense for all the farm operations, varied from 

 $4.77 to $15.45 per acre, or a revenue of $419.76 to $1,359.60 per crop 

 year on the fiel<i. 



5. DAIRYING UNDER DRY FARMING CONDITIONS. 



Abstract of address by Professor E. H. Webster, Chief Dairy Di- 

 vision, U. S. Department of Agriculture: 



Most dry farming crops, as all crops everywhere, bring ill an in- 

 come but once a year. 



Sometimes the work of a year may be swept away in a moment by 

 flood, or hail, or fire and sometimes the heavens fail to give forth the 

 necessary rain for dry farming even, and the crops are a failure. 



To the farmer in seasons like this, comes the pinch of hard times. 

 Rills must go over; but the family must be clothed and the children 

 sent to school. With an empty granary -and no other source of income, 

 this is sometimes impo'ssible. Seldom, however, is there a year when 

 feed of some kind cannot be raised for a bunch of dairy cows. Many 

 times grain crops, that may be utter failures from the standpoint of 



Forage Crops. 



the grain they yield, may still be turned into hay or fodder or silage — 

 excellent food for the stock — and total loss avoided. The farmer who 

 keeps cows will plant forage crops which are reasonably sure and plan 

 to make silage and hay that will carry him over the season. Much 

 roughage that would otherwise be lost, may thus be turned to good 

 account. 



Dairying. 



The one great advantage of the dairy cow over other live stock is 

 the fact that she pays dividends every day in the year, in a commodity 



