COST OF PRODUCING WINTER WHEAT IN GREAT PLAINS. 98 
four per cent of the farms in Pike County, and 74 per cent in Gar- 
field County, fall within this cost group. 
A comparison of the first two cost groups in Table 17 shows that, 
of the relative increase in the various items in the second, over 
those in the first cost group, labor and power and interest on invest- 
ment are the items showing the greatest increase. The increase in 
material costs for the farms in the second group was due mainly to 
a cost for commercial fertilizer of $2.65 per acre in Pike County, 
Mo., the only region where commercial fertilizer was applied to the 
wheat land. 
Sixty-eight per cent of the farms with costs of $35 and over were 
in the two Missouri counties and in Gage County, Nebr. These farms 
are located in regions of relatively high land values and here again 
the increase in the items of cost was most pronounced in the case of 
labor and power and interest on investment together with the aban- 
doned acreage charge. 
TABLE 16.— Variation in net cost per acre by counties, winter wheat, 1920. 
(216 owned farms.) 
Number of farms with an acre cost 
of— 
Total 
State and county. number of 
Under $25.| $25 to gas. | 883and | ‘37™S: 
: > me over. 
Missouri: 
Pe Pike Coun byes a araanetenie aye a el eA Dae NA rae 2 25 12 39 
CarnolliCoumby eae ae es SE ye Serco beie 1 : 11 13 25 
Nebraska: 
Gace Coumbyeete ces cane ee ol Ho ia se See raicietel| welewe seicieieinie 4 13 17 
Cla vaC Ou yaa eee eee ee ese inise oa re mcis |scicrcjarstere\siais.s § 5 13 
Cheyenne County.....----..-.- eget ot ley et NE ah 4 12 2 18 
Kansas: 
PVOMaASIC outs sees pest vs ee et wea Ne 18 1 aa cesta 19 
MciBhersons@ onm byes tania ee see ererere Py 8 1 11 
IRawmee Counibye ws sere es i ree NS NORE Ges as 10 4 1 15 
Oklahoma: 
Garhi el GEC Oui tayas ete tae ats oe ots A Se 3 23 5 31 
WioodwardiCountyeessgeeeose ee ee ea 15 9 4 28 
TM Oval Beis rsa e ob sis sesiee oe hee onan wie eects 55 105 56 216 
percentage ontotal farms. asccm a. se cce sete cae eee oe 25. 5 48. 6 25. 9 100. 0 
Cumulative percentage of totalfarms............-.-.-. 25. 5 TACT TOOR OR Eee ae ees 
Percentage of harvested acreage ......--...------------- 44.5 42.0 1305) 100. 0 
Cumulative percentage of harvested acres -....-.....--- 44.5 86. 5 LOOHON Ee oe 
Percentage of total production ............-....-------- 37. 4 46. 5 16. 1 100. 0 
Cumulative percentage of total production ...-.......-. 37.4 83. 9 EO |sascoosaceds 
TaBLE 17.—Distribution of items of cost, by cost per acre groups, winter wheat, 1920. 
(216 owned farms.) 
Cost per acre. | 
Aver- Total 
A ii Bee ‘A Credit vee 
et cost per acre. ero yie ban- |Interest er Ea 
farms. | (bu- a Mate- | doned | onin- Oth Total eee cost per 
shels). ae rials. | acre- | vest- cE: Pee Bene: 
I” : age. | ment. < 
Watder.$255.- seen ae 55 12.5 | $7.09 | $1.89 | $0.35 | $5.20) $5.47 | $20.00 | $0.50] $19.50 
WWANUOCBHHRAS one ea as= 105 16.5 9. 08 3. 04 . 84 9.00 7.80 | 29.76 » 34 29. 42 
$35 and over......... 56 17.8} 12. 04 Be ae Bx AL |S ils G8) 8.90 | 39.48 - 46 39. 02 
All farms... .. 216 14.9 8. 61 2. 62 94 7.65 6.91 | 26.73 43 26. 30 
