44 
BULLETIIT 943, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the winter wheat than ui the sprmg wheat areas. The highest cost 
per acre for tractor use occurred m Keith County, Nebr., where 
over 50 per cent of the men interviewed used the tractor. In this 
area 30 per cent of the farmers used the tractor for harvesting wheat 
with the binder and 4 per cent used the tractor for headmg wheat. 
(See fig. 11.) 
USE-COST OF OTHER FARM MACHINERY. 
The items makmg up the total charge for use of "other farm 
machinery" include taxes and insurance, interest on investment, 
depreciation, and the annual maintenance repairs for this machinery. 
The total annual farm charge for the use of machinery has been 
divided between the crop and live-stock enterprises on the farm m 
proportion to the number of horse hours of work required m their 
production. In a few instances farm machinery was hired for use 
in producmg the wheat crop and when this was the case the actual 
cash paid out was considered. 
Table XXVIII. — Use cost of tractor and other farm machinery spring and winter wheat, 
1919 {481 farms). 
Plowing (trac- 
tor work). 
Disking (trac- 
tor work). 
Harrowing 
(tractor work). 
Cutting (trac- 
tor work). 
An- 
nual 
use- 
State and county. 
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SPRING WHEAT. 
North Dakota: 
Grand Forks County . . . 
7.7 
12.8 
15.0 
25.6 
11.9 
9.0 
12.5 
20.0 
10.0 
16.7 
31.6 
6.7 
17.1 
47.8 
1.1 
1.0 
1.1 
1.2 
.9 
1.1 
1.1 
1.2 
2.0 
1.6 
L3 
.9 
-SI. 36 
1.30 
1.34 
1.37 
1.31 
1.36 
1.59 
1.28 
1.30 
1.46 
1.50 
.97 
1.43 
1.34 
■ 
$1.50 
5.1 
2.5 
10.3 
4.8 
3.1 
3.1 
0.7 
.5 
.6 
.6 
.3 
.8 
$0.45 
.50 
.52 
.53 
.65 
.65 
South Dakota: 
Spink County 
20.5 
4.8 
0.3 
.2 
$0.41 
.26 
7.5 
5.1 
7.1 
9.4 
15.6 
17.1 
0.4 
.2 
. 5 
.5 
.6 
$0.47 
.50 
.43 
.49 
.50 
.56 
.41 
"'.45 
.4S 
.50 
.48 
1.36 
Minnesota: 
Clay Coimty 
Traverse County 
WINTER "VVTIEAT. 
Kansas: 
Ford Countv 
1.30 
1.43 
1.15 
Pawnee County 
McPherson County 
6.2 
.2 
.21 
1.32 
1.91 
Missouri: 
Saline County . 
6.9 
3.3 
7.9 
1.2 
. 7 
.8 
.60 
.60 
.73 
6. 9 . 7 
1.51 
Jasper County 
St. Charles County 
Nebraska: 
Phelps County 
3.3 
5.3 
.3 
.3 
.25 
.30 
"io.'s" 
6.7 
2.9 
30.4 
".6 
.4 
.6 
.3 
1.77 
2.13 
1.23 
L93 
Keith County 
30.4 
.8 
.48 
4.3 
.4 
.35 
1.68 
LOSS ON ABANDONED WHEAT ACREAGE. 
On some farms visited a part of the acreage seeded to wheat was 
not harvested because the crop was destrayed or m such condition 
that it was not worth cutting. AU costs for labor, seed, manure. 
