191 1.] Cost of Producing Wheat, etc., in U..S. 657 



bushels per acre in Vermont to 12*8 bushels per acre in South 

 Carolina, the average for the United States being 17*2 bushels. 

 An indication of the quality of the grain (4s. per bushel for 

 the whole Union) is given by the value per bushel in the 

 various States; this is greatest in the case of South 

 Carolina and Georgia, and least in the case of Utah and 

 Idaho. The average value of the grain per acre over the whole 

 of the United States is estimated at £3 8s. 8d; 



Profit from Wheat Growing. — Taking the country as a 

 whole, the net profit from wheat growing works out at 

 £1 2S. 8d. for every acre under the crop, or at is. ^d. for 

 every bushel of grain produced. The remarkable estimate 

 of a profit of £4. 2s. 6d. per acre was made for Vermont, while 

 the cultivation of wheat would also appear to be a very 

 profitable matter in the far western States of Montana, 

 Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. The profit is 

 only about 10s. per acre in West Virginia, Kentucky, and 

 Tennessee. 



Cost of Producing Oats. — It will be seen that the average 

 cost of producing oats in the United States is £2 5s. 6d. per 

 acre, or is. ^d. per bushel. The various items which go to 

 make up this cost are as follows (all per acre) : — Artificial 

 manures, is. 8d.; preparation of land, js. iod.; seed, 4s. 8d. ; 

 planting, is. iod.; harvesting, $s. yd.; preparing for market, 

 6s. qd.; miscellaneous, is. iod.; and rent, 15s. gd. The 

 highest cost per acre as regards individual states is in Maine 

 and Maryland with 865. and 945. per acre respectively, while 

 the cost is lowest in Missouri and North and South Dakota, 

 the expenses in each of these States not exceeding about 36s. 

 per acre. The cost of producing a bushel of oats is highest in 

 Connecticut and Maine (2s. 3d.) and Arizona (3s. 3d.) , and 

 lowest in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and 

 Missouri (is. 2d.). The average cost for the whole country 

 is is. qd. per bushel. 



Yield of Oats. — The yield varies from 59*2 bushels per 

 acre in Utah and 51 bushels per acre in Montana to 22 bushels 

 in Arizona and Florida, the average for the United States 

 being 35*2 bushels. The grain is priced highest in Arizona 

 (3s. 9^- per bushel), and lowest in Iowa, North and South 

 Dakota, and Nebraska (is. 5<i. per bushel); the average is 



