COST or PRODUCING WHEAT. 
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use of land J unless recropped, taxes and insurance, etc., expended 
on this acreage make up the charge ''Loss on abandoned wheat 
acreage." When pastured, credit has been given for the value of 
the pasture. The total cost of all abandoned acreage in a region, 
divided by the acreage harvested, is the average abandoned acreage 
cost per harvested acre. (See Table XXIX.) 
In South Dakota, Minnesota, St. Charles County, Mo., and Keith 
County, Nebr., no abandoned acreage was reported, while in the 
other areas from 0.5 to 8.2 per cent of the wheat acreage was not 
harvested. 
SACK RENT. 
During thrashing in Saline and St. Charles counties. Mo., a part 
of the wheat was sacked and stored on the farm until thrashing 
was over, or hauled direct to local elevators. In many instances 
the farmers did not own sufficient sacks and rented additional ones. 
The rent for the use of these amounted to about 4 cents per sack, 
and the acre charge for sack rent averaged about 7 cents an acre 
for each county. 
Table XXIX. — Loss due to abandoned ivheat acreage, spring and tvinter wheat — 1919 
{481 farms). 
State and countv. 
North Dakota: 
Grand Forks County. 
Morton County 
South Dakota: 
Spink County 
Minnesota: 
Clay County 
Traverse Coimtv 
All spring wheat. 
Kansas: 
Ford County 
Pawnee County 
McPherson County. 
Missouri: 
Saline County , 
Jasper County 
St. Charles County. 
Nebraska: 
Phelps County 
Saline County 
Keith County 
All \\inter wheat . 
Per cent 
of farms 
reporting 
aband- 
oned 
acreage. 
28 
Acres 
seeded. 
10,959 
6,312 
9,500 
10,376 
7,071 
Acres 
har- 
vested . 
Per cent 
oftotal 
acreage 
aband- 
oned. 
10,060 
5,840 
,500 
10,376 
7,071 
44,218 
10, 164 
9,282 
4,990 
2,523 
2,960 
3,035 
4,573 
2,018 
4,395 
42,847 
9,817 
9,092 
4,652 
2,362 
2,949 
3,035 
4,404 
2,008 
4,395 
43,940 42.714 
8.20 
7.48 
3.10 
3.41 
2.05 
6.77 
6.38 
.37 
3.70 
.50 
Average 
cost per 
acre 
aband- 
oned. 
SIO. 87 
11.64 
11.14 
6.83 
8.53 
9.52 
13.26 
16.43 
29.73 
9.18 
OVERHEAD. 
In addition to items of expense such as labor, seed, twine, thrash- 
ing, etc., which are directly chargeable to wheat, there are certain 
items of general farm expense that are not only an essential part of 
the wheat account, but also a part of the cost of every other crop and 
