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BULLETIN 1296, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Reorganized cropping system 
Crop 
Area 
Yield per acre 
Total yield 
Amount 
for feed 
Amount 
for seed 
Salable 
crops 
Wheat 
Acres 
160 
25 
30 
30 
18 
18 
18 
5 
10 
38 
14 bushels . 
2.240 bushels 
625 bushels 
600 bushels 
22)i tons 
Bushels 
40 
575 
596 
All. 
All. 
All. 
All. 
AU. 
Bushels 
200 
50 
4 
Bushels 
2.000 
Oats 
25 bushels 
Corn: 
Grain 
20 bushels 
Stover 
54 ton 
Kafir: 
15 bushels 
270 bushels .. 
30 tons 
Stover 
lMtons. 
Alfalfa _ 
2 tons 
36 tons 
Sudan grass ha v.. 
2 tons. 
10 tons 
Sudan grass pasture 
Alfalfa pasture 
Native pasture. 
C Ton sfilp^* 
2,000 bushels of wheat at 90 cents $1, 800 
Total crop sales $1, 800 
Livestock to be kept : 
8 work horses. 
10 cows. 
15 young cattle. 
5 brood sows and their pigs. 
200 chickens. 
Livestock products: 
2,000 pounds of butter fat, at 373^ cents $750 
8,000 pounds of pork, at 7 cents 560 
2,250 pounds of beef, at 43^ cents 101 
1,350 dozen eggs, at 23 cents 310 
800 pounds of poultry, at 173^2 cents 140 
Total value of livestock products 1 , 861 
Total crop sales and value of livestock products 3, 661 
Cost of materials and threshing for crops: 
Twine 
Threshing 
Seed 
Total 
Wheat 
Dollars 
36 
6 
7 
4 
Dollars 
269 
50 
Dollars 
Dollars 
305 
Oats 
56 
Corn . 
7 
Kafir . 
4 
22 
8 
Sudan grass 
22 
53 
319 
26 
398 
Total cost of materials for crops $398 
Materials and feeds for livestock: 
Cost of veterinary services, medicine, grits, salt, and horse- 
shoeing — 
Cattle $7 
Horses 5 
Poultry 7 
Swine 6 
Total 25 
Cost of protein supplement — ■ 
Cattle 120 
Hogs 20 
Poultry 15 
Total 155 
Total cost of extra materials for crops and livestock. _ _ 578 
Extra hired labor expense 225 
Total cost of extra materials and labor 
Net returns to the suggested organization after deducting 
costs of extra materials and labor __- 2, 858 
Net returns to the present organization aftei^ deducting costs of extra 
materials and labor 2, 362 
Net increase over the present plan of operation 496 
803 
