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The rate of application is the average for one seeding only, but the 
cost per acre includes the value of the seed used on the reseeded 
acreage. For this reason, and also because the acre cost for seed 
is a weighted average, the average amount applied per acre naulti- 
plied by the average price per bushel will not equal the cost per 
acre. 
The value of seed wheat per bushel is an average. Some men bought 
high-grade recleaned seed and some used their own supply for 
planting. The figures given include the value of any materials used 
for seed treatment. All farm-grown seed was charged at its farm 
sale value at planting time. 
The average rate of seeding and the average price per bushel were 
somewhat less for the winter wheat than for the spring wheat, with 
a correspondingly lower cost per acre for winter wheat. (See Table 
XXI.) 
BINDER TWINE. 
Because of the light straw, the average binder-twine requirements 
per acre were appreciably less in the spring- wheat than in the winter- 
wheat districts. 
In three spring-wheat and in four winter-wheat districts the entire 
acreage was cut with a binder. Principally because of the short 
straw in Morton County, N. Dak., 90 per cent of the acreage 
was cut with a header. The average price paid for twine varied 
from 22 cents per pound in Clay County, Minn., to 29 cents in 
Grand Forks County, N. Dak., and the average for all winter wheat 
was 1 cent per pound higher than for all spring wheat. (See Table 
XXIII.) 
Table XXII. — Seed requirements per acre, spring and winter wheat, 1919 (481 farms). 
State and comity. 
Per cent 
of acreage 
re-seeded. 
Rate of 
applica- 
tion. 
Price per 
bushel. 
Average 
cost per 
acre. 
North Dakota: 
Grand Forks County . . . 
BusheU. 
1.39 
1.23 
1.20 
1.36 
1.41 
$2.44 
2.41 
2.32 
2.44 
2.41 
$3.39 
Morton County . 
2.98 
South Dakota: 
Spmk County . .... 
2.78 
Minnesota: 
Clay Coiintv 
3.45 
Traverse County 
3.38 
All spring wheat . . . 
1.31 
2.40 
3.21 
Kansas: 
Ford County 
4.4 
9.8 
1.4 
.77 
.95 
1.06 
1.30 
1.23 
1.14 
1.04 
1.44 
.92 
2.23 
2.12 
1.98 
2.10 
2.05 
2.21 
2.06 
2.09 
2.05 
1.79 
2.19 
McPherson County . ... 
2.36 
Missouri: 
Saline County 
2.73 
.2 
2.52 
St. Charles County .. 
2.58 
Nebraska: 
Phelps County 
1.4 
2.13 
2.99 
Keith County. . . 
1.72 
All winter wheat 
3.4 
1.11 
2.12 
2.18 
