COST OF PRODUCII^G WHEAT. 
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The next two and important groups, $20 to $25 and $25 to $30 per 
acre, contained farms on which there was either a gradual or irregu- 
lar increase in all or a part of the various items of cost over those 
farms in the preceding group. These increases were most pronounced 
in labor and rent costs, although a few farms came within these 
groups because of abandoned acreage costs. 
Table VIII. — Range in cost per acre, by counties, spring and winter wheat, 1919 {481 
farms) . 
District. 
Num- 
ber of 
records. 
Cost per acre. 
Under 
$20 
(num- 
ber of 
farms). 
$20 
to $25 
(num- 
ber of 
farms). 
$25 
to $30 
(num- 
ber of 
farms). 
$30 
to $35 
(num- 
ber of 
farms). 
$35 
to $40 
, (num- 
ber of 
farms) 
$40 and 
over 
(num- 
ber of 
farms). 
SPRING AVHEAT. 
North Dakota: 
Grand Forks County 
Morton County 
Soutli Dakota: 
Spink County 
Minnesota: 
Clay County 
Traverse County 
Total, spring wheat 
Percent of total 
WINTER WHEAT 
Kansas: 
Ford County 
Pawnee County 
McPherson County 
Missouri: 
Saline County 
Jasper County 
St. Charles County 
Nebraska: 
Phelps County 
SalineCounty 
Keith Cotmty 
Total, winter wheat 
Per cent of total 
39 
197 
100 
284 
100 
22 
20 
The farms in the three highest cost groups had one or more exces- 
sive items of cost. Thus in the Grand Forks area the farm having 
a cost of $30 to $35 per acre was a rented farm with a yield of 12 
bushels per acre based on the acres harvested, but about one-half 
of the acreage seeded was abandoned before harvest. In the saime 
area the farm in the $35 to $40 class abandoned 150 out of 210 acres. 
The two farms having the highest cost in Spink County came in the 
$30 to $35 group. One of these farms had a very high rent cost 
and the other a high labor and rent cost combined with a com- 
paratively high cost for seed wheat. 
The eight farms in Minnesota with costs of $30 to $35 per acre 
had high labor and rent costs, and the one farm in Traverse County 
with a cost of over $40 was a small farm highly capitalized. The 
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