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Table 19. — Value of crop and pasture growth per farm in 1909 . 
Type area 
Estimated har- 
vest value of 
pasture 
Harvest value 
of pasture per 
acre of pasture 
land 
Value of crops 
plus the esti- 
mated value of 
pasture 
Value of crops 
and pasture 
per acre of the 
farm area 
Per cent of the 
value of land 
Northwest to 
North Central 
nigh Plains 
$509 
$ .49 
$1253 
$1.11 
* 
11 
W. Sand Hills.... 
372 
.23 
1104 
.62 
13 
E. Sand Hills 
357 
.50 
1268 
1.48 
15 
Boyd 
465 
1.14 
1650 
2.79 
12 
Southwest to 
Northeast 
Chase 
386 
.55 
1390 
1.67 
15 
Buffalo 
300 
2.46 
1882 
7.24 
15 
Custer 
348 
1.74 
1892 
5.48 
16 
Wayne 
302 
3.51 
2241 
9.79 
14 
Southwest to 
Southeast 
Hitchcock 
368 
.78 
1629 
2.42 
15 
Harlan 
230 
1.77 
1429 
5.13 
14 
Thayer 
224 
3.73 
1942 
10.55 
14 
Cass 
232 
4.30 1 
1844 
10.78 
13 
CROP INDEXES 
In 1909 the Hitchcock type of farm produced on 48.70 
acres as many bushels of corn as the Cass type of farm pro- 
duced on 16.94 acres.* According to this ratio 100 acres of 
corn in the Hitchcock area would have produced as much 
as 34.77 acres in the Cass area. In Farm Management this 
statement would commonly read — the crop index of corn land 
in the Hitchcock area is 34.77 per cent of that in the Cass 
area. 
Table 20 illustrates the method of determining the crop 
index of the cultivated land, the crop land, and the farm as a 
whole. It will be observed that according to this calculation 
•Representative counties in the Cass area— Cass, Dodge, Johnson, Otoe. Paw- 
nee. Saunders, and Washington Counties produced 21,077.553 bushels of corn 
on 705.710 acres. Acres per farm reporting domestic animals, 50.S2. Bushels per 
farm, 1.052. Yield per acre, 27.62 bushels. (1000) 
Representative counties in Hitchcock area — Hitchcock county in Nebraska and 
Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, and Thomas Counties in Kansas produced 2,062.805 
bushels of corn on 214.520 acres. Acres per farm reportincr domestic animals, 
48.70. Bushels per farm. 468. Yield per acre, 0.61 bushels. (1000) 
