REQUIREMENTS OF FIELD CROPS. 
Table 4. — Silage: Percentage distribution of costs per acre. 
11 
Iowa. 
New York. 
Item. 
Distri- 
bution of 
operating 
expense. 
Distri- 
bution of 
total, 
costs. 
Distri- 
bution of 
operating 
expense. 
Distri- 
bution of 
total 
costs. 
Per cent. 
24.8 
29.8 
Per cent. 
16.8 
19.3 
Per cent. 
24.6 
21.5 
Per cent. 
21.0 
18.3 
Materials: 
Seed : 
2.2 
1.8 
2.5 
16.5 
1.5 
1.2 
1.8 
11.4 
2.3 
1.1 
1.0 
32.0 
2.0 
1.0 
Fuel 
.8 
28.0 
23.0 
15. 9 
36.4 
31.8 
Other costs: 
6.9 
15.5 
4.9 
10.5 
6.6 
10.9 
5.7 
9.2 
22.4 
15.4 
17.5 
14.9 
32.6 
14.0 
Value of land per acre 
$190 
$120 
COTTON. 
During the year 1918 enterprise cost records were obtained in 10 
southern counties. The acreage devoted to cotton on the farms 
visited in these counties was as follows: Anderson (S. C), 2,866; 
Barnwell (S. C), 3,936; Laurens (Ga.), 3,968; Greene (Ga.), 4,148; 
Sumter (Ga.), 4,188; Tallapoosa (Ala.), 1,169; Marshall (Ala.), 
1,250; Dale (Ala.), 1,226; Ellis (Tex.), 8,148; Rusk (Tex.), 2,568— 
total for all districts, 33,467 acres. 1 The labor and material require- 
ments as shown by this survey are summarized in Table 5. 
Table 5. — Cotton: Labor and material requirements per acre (84-2 records, 1918 crops). 
Num- 
ber 
rec- 
ords. 
Yield 
of lint 
per 
acre. 
Man labor. 
Mule labor. 
Seed, 
Fertil- 
izer. 
Per 
cent of 
Region. 
Prior 
to har- 
vest. 
Har- 
vest. 
Total. 
Prior 
to har- 
vest. 
Har- 
vest. 
Total. 
operat- 
ing ex- 
pense a 
cov- 
ered 
by 
fore- 
going. 
South Carolina: 
Anderson Co 
Barnwell Co 
Georgia: 
89 
91 
85 
78 
80 
89 
90 
90 
75 
75 
Lbs. 
248 
268 
277 
260 
244 
172 
227 
194 
176 
185 
Ilrs. 
75 
73 
61 
74 
81 
85 
76 
67 
31 
49 
Hrs. 
56 
63 
64 
57 
55 
39 
51 
50 
25 
37 
Hrs. 
131 
136 
125 
131 
136 
124 
127 
117 
56 
86 
Hrs. 
45 
45 
14 
47 
53 
50 
51 
46 
33 
42 
Hrs. 
12 
17 
16 
13 
11 
9 
8 
7 
4 
8 
Hrs. 
57 
62 
60 
60 
64 
59 
59 
53 
37 
50 
Lbs. 
35 
31 
25 
35 
38 
35 
30 
28 
22 
25 
Lbs. 
404 
555 
288 
257 
286 
187 
333 
250 
14.5 
86 
86 
85 
85 
84 
Alabama: 
Tallapoosa Co 
Marshall Co 
Dale 
87 
85 
85 
Texas: 
Ellis Co 
79 
Rusk Co 
S3 
a Excluding interest on land. 
1 An analysis of labor practices for the farms represented in these counties is given in U.S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture Bulletin 896, entitled "The Cost of Producing Cotton." 
