COTTON 205 
EXPENSES EST COTTON PRODUCTION PER ACRE 
( Continued) 
Items of Expense Farm A Farm B 
Totals brought forward $25.95 $30.30 
Less value of seed 5.60 5.84 
Expenses in producing lint $20.35 $24.46 
Yield in pounds, lint cotton 350 365 
Expense per pound lint cotton.. . 5.8c 6.7c 
Market value lint at 10 cents. . . . $35.00 $36.50 
Receipts per acre above expense. . $14.65 $12.04 
The results on these two farms show a difference 
of nearly one cent a pound in cost of producing 
lint cotton, and here, too, rather good farming is 
done, since the yields obtained are nearly twice 
the average production for the Cotton Belt. 
But let us take other examples that more nearly 
correspond to the average for the whole country. 
Like the preceding two, they are also actual 
results produced on three average farms : 
EXPENSES IN COTTON PRODUCTION ON BASIS 
OF AN 
ACRE 
Items of Expense 
Farm C 
Farm D 
Farm E 
Plowing 
$1.25 
$1 
00 
$1 
.00 
Harrowing 
.50 
.50 
.15 
Bedding and Adding Fer- 
tilizer 
1.75 
1 
50 
1 
.12 
Planting 
.40 
25 
.25 
Chopping 
.50 
1 
.50 
.75 
Carried forward 
$4.40 
$4 
.75 
$3 
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