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11 more days on the Pennsylvania farms than on the New York 
farms. All haying machinery is well taken care of in both sections. 
The practice of allowing machinery to stand out of doors, customary 
in some parts of the middle west, is not common in the east. 
Table XVI. — Life of machinery and number of days used. 
52 farms in Steuben County, 37 farms in Washington County 
X. Y. p a . 
Kind of machine. 
Farms 
report- 
ing. 
Days 
use'd i Years' 
per j service. 
year. | 
Days 
used 
during 
life. 
Farms 
report- 
ing. 
Days 
used 
per 
year. 
Years' 
service. 
Days 
use'd 
during 
life. 
17 
13 
52 
29 
52 
0.904 
.797 
5.150 
4. 030 
2.830 
19.40 
17. 50 
10. 65 
17.07 
17.60 
17. 52 
13.96 
54.80 
68. 85 
49.80 
11 
0. 557 
20. 25 
11.45 
Wheelbarrow seeders 
Mowers 
Tedders 
Rakes 
37 
21 
37 
3.620 
3. 480 
2. 430 
14.46 
24.28 
25. 20 
52.42 
84.50 
61.40 
In Table XVII are shown corfrparative figures on interest and 
taxes on hay land for the two regions : 
Table XVII. — Interest and taxes on hay land. 
Item. 
52 farms in Steuben 
County, N. Y. 
37 farms in Wash- 
ington Countv, 
Pa. 
Per acre. \ Per ton. Per acre. Per 
ton. 
Average value of entire farm 
Average value of hay land 
Interest on hay land at 5 per cent 
Taxes on hay land 
Interest and taxes 
§55. 35 
80.10 
4.00 
.801 
4. 801 
S2. 670 
.534 
3.204 
S72.84 
105. 40 
5.27 
1.054 
6.324 
S3. 380 
.675 
4. 055 
TOTAL COST OF PRODUCING HAY. 
In Table XVIII is given a summary of the cost of all labor, of 
machinery charges, seed cost, taxes, and interest on hay land. This 
amounts to $5 per ton for the New York farms and $6.10 for the 
Pennsylvania farms. This cost is obtained by prorating the cost of 
seeding, tedding, etc., to cover the total hay area surveyed in each 
section. 1 
Table XIX presents the cost of producing hay on farms where there 
is a charge for seeding and tedding. The cost of these operations, 
machinery charges, seed cost, taxes, and interest on land, amount to 
$7,704 per acre and $5,154 per ton for the New York and $9,673 per 
acre and $6,202 per ton for the Pennsylvania group. 
On farms where hay is not seeded with a grain crop, but where 
the seed bed is prepared especially, there will be an additional labor 
charge of perhaps from 75 cents to $1 per acre per year, depending 
upon the life of the meadow. 
1 Commercial for. Llizers arc used very little in the areas studied, and not at all on the hay crop. Hence 
there is no charge for fertilizers. 
