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BULLETIN 716, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table II. — Total acreage and production of wheat on £5 farms for five years, 
1912-1916 -{Palmer Township, Washington County, Ohio). 
Item. 
1914 
1915 
1916 
21 
24 
23 
164 
254 
254 
18 
18 
11 
2,918 
4,616 
2,540 
2,040 
2,536 
1,728 
878 
2,080 
812 
$1,046 
$2,398 
$1,230 
$1.19 
$1.15 
$1.52 
5-year 
average. 
Number of farms producing wheat 23 23 
Acreage of wheat 230 I 240 
Yield per acre, bushels 14 j 9 
Production of wheat, bushels 3,353 2,184 
Quantity of wheat used, bushels a 1, 932 1, 797 
Quantity of wheat sold I 1,421 387 
Receipts from wheat ' $1,393 $375 
Price received per bushel I $0.98 i $0.97 
23 
228 
14 
3,122 
2,007 
1,115 
$1,288 
$1.16 
a Includes that used for bread, seed, and feed. 
Only about one-half of the farmers raised oats, and statistics show 
that less of this crop is grown than in former years. The principal 
reason for this is the low yield per acre, which is usually less than 
30 bushels, a very low feed value per acre. In Palmer Township, 
where the acreage that can well be devoted to cultivated crops is 
somewhat limited, it is a good farm practice to grow crops that return 
a comparatively high feed value per acre. An acre of corn in this 
area produced fully 2J times the feed value that was produced from 
an acre of oats. Fields with poor stands of grass were sometimes 
plowed, sown to oats, and seeded again to grass. This practice is 
followed almost as frequently as that of growing oats in the regular 
rotation. 
Eye has occupied an unimportant place in the crop acreage of 
Palmer Township. Only a few of the farmers raised rye, and then 
only for an occasional year or two. It was usually seeded instead of 
wheat, but has made very little progress in displacing wheat. 
The other crops included under small grains were grown in small 
acreages and on scattered farms. They were of little importance to 
the township as a whole. 
Hay occupied 46 per cent, or almost one-half of the crop acreage. 
The main hay crop consisted of either clover or timothy, or clover 
and timothy mixed. The clover and timothy was often still further 
mixed with bluegrass or redtop, especially if the meadows were of 
more than two years' standing. 
Such crops as oats, wheat, rye, millet, sorghum, cowpeas, and soy 
beans were occasional^ reported used for hay. These occurred as 
small acreages, and combined they totaled only 4 per cent of the hay 
acreage. 
Soy beans for hay have grown somewhat in favor with a number 
of farmers during the period of this survey. One farmer grew 2 
acres in 1912 and four farmers grew 11 acres altogether in 1916. 
Five grew soy beans for hay in 1914, to supplement the main hay 
