BARLEY IN THE GREAT PLAINS AREA. 
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Table III. — Average price of barley at the farm granary for ten years in four States of the 
Great Plains area. 
[Tho quotations are given in 
cents per bushel. Those for tho year 191 1 are 
years Dec. 1 is taken as the date.] 
for tho date of Nov. 1; in other 
Year. 
North 
Da- 
kota. 
South 
Da- 
kota. 
Ne- 
braska. 
Kan- 
sas. 
Aver- 
age. 
Year. 
North 
Da- 
kota. 
South 
Da- 
kota. 
Ne- 
braska. 
Kan- 
sas. 
Aver- 
age. 
1905 
30 
33 
58 
46 
43 
55 
29 
32 
61 
47 
45 
57 
31 
31 
50 
46 
43 
45 
32 
33 
54 
54 
53 
45 
30i 
32* 
55f 
48* 
46 
50,} 
1911 
85 
35 
40 
42 
88 
42 
46 
49 
60 
42 
49 
42 
60 
40 
55 
44 
73} 
392 
47f 
44* 
1906 
1912 
1907 . 
1913 
1908 
1914 
Average. 
1910 
47 
50 
44 
47 
47 
Table III shows that the average farm price of barley on December 
1 for the past 10 years has been 47 cents per bushel. It costs about 
6 cents per bushel to take the grain from the shock, thrash it, and put 
it in the granary on the farm. This cost per bushel does not vary 
greatly with the yield, and is therefore a fixed price per bushel instead of 
a fixed price per acre, as is the case with the other costs of production. 
The relative profits of producing barley under the different methods 
can therefore be best determined by finding the difference between 
the fixed cost per acre and the value per acre of the grain at the point 
where the fixed cost per acre ends, which, as before stated, is when 
the grain is in the shock. Knowing that the average farm value of 
barley in the granary is 47 cents per bushel, and that it costs 6 cents 
per bushel to take it from the shock, thrash it, and put it in the granary 
it is obvious that it would be worth 41 cents per bushel in the shock. 
This valuation of 41 cents per bushel has therefore been used as a 
basis for calculating the relative crop values, costs, and profits per 
acre by the various methods under trial. 
Table IY. — Cost per acre of producing barley in the shock in the Great Plains area, showing 
averages of data from eight stations. 
Number of operations. 
Cost of 
prepa- 
ra- 
tion. 
Cost per acre. 
Total cost of 
production. 
Method of 
preparation. 
Plow- 
ing. 
Har- 
row- 
ing. 
Disk- 
ing. 
Sub- 
soil- 
ing. 
List- 
ing. 
Drill- 
ing. 
Seed. 
Drill- 
ing. 
Har- 
vest- 
ing. 
Inter- 
est 
and 
taxes. 
In 
dollars. 
In 
grain 
at 41 
cents 
per 
bushel. 
1.3 
1.6 
1.3 
2.3 
1.7 
9.2 
6.5 
5.8 
1 
1.2 
.5 
.9 
.9 
2.6 
2.4 
2.7 
$0.97 
1.77 
2.31 
2.78 
3.39 
6.12 
7.73 
10.73 
SO. 75 
.75 
.75 
.75 
.75 
.75 
. 75 
.75 
$0.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
$0.93 
.93 
.93 
.93 
.93 
.93 
.93 
.93 
$1. 60 
1.60 
1.60 
1.60 
1.60 
3.20 
3.20 
3.20 
4.65 
5.45 
5.99 
6.46 
7.07 
11.40 
11.3 
Listed 
1 
13.3 
Spring plowed 
Fall plowed 
1 
1 
1 
1.5 
2 
2 
14.6 
15.8 
Subsoiled 
0.5 
17.2 
Summer tilled 
27.8 
1 
1 
Green manured: 
With rye * 
13.01 
16.01 
31.7 
With peas 2 ... 
39.0 
Average cost of 
green manur- 
14.51 
35.4 
1 The cost of rye per acre for seed is estimated at SI. 2 The cost of peas per acre for seed is estimated at $4. 
