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THE COST OF A CROP. 
No. 17—An Ohio Corn Crop. 
After reading the report of ('has. 15. Fos¬ 
ter’s expenses for growing a crop of corn I 
began to wonder if he ever had any ex¬ 
perience in corn growing, or, if so, perhaps 
he is a grower of fancy corn and expects 
to take premiums at corn shows, and dis¬ 
pose of the crop to farmers at high prices 
for seed purposes. Or he may be using this 
vast ouantity of manure as a preparation 
for cauliflower, onions, celery or some other 
crop. In any event the experienced corn 
grower well knows that one-tenth of this 
manure properly uistributed will make just 
as much corn as the entire amount. There¬ 
fore only one-tenth the manure expense 
should be charged to this crop. If, how¬ 
ever, it is the intention to make the ex¬ 
penses as great as possible, why not put 
on a ton of high-grade fertilizer on each 
acre ? 
In contrast with Mr. Foster’s crop re¬ 
port I shall send in my report. Twelve 
acres will be planted to corn if the weather 
permits; six acres are now planted (May 
10 1 . A portion of' this field was planted 
in potatoes last year, and 500 pounds of 
fertilizer applied in the drill. A portion of 
the field has been farmed in corn two suc¬ 
cessive seasons, the remainder three sea¬ 
sons, and no fertilizer has oeen applied. 
This field is capable of producing 25 bushels 
of corn per acre in a good season. The 
laud was left bare each Winter. One acre 
will be fertilized as an experiment with a 
high-grade fertilizer. May 24 an all-day 
rain. I had hoped to send in a full re¬ 
port of cornfield before this time, but a 
heavy rain Friday and another to-day will 
prevent us irom planting the remaining six 
acres which is ready for the harrow. Thus 
far we have worked 85 hours on this field. 
Champaign Co., O. wm. kapp. 
Xo doubt this same thing has oc¬ 
curred to other readers. We shall have 
the returns from this corn crop and 
then know what follows it. You must 
remember that corn is worth about twice 
as much per bushel on Long Island as 
it is in Ohio and that the stalks have 
value. 
No. 18—A Pennsylvania Potato Crop. 
As you call for volunteers for the cost 
of a crop 1 will give the cost of a seven 
acre field of potatoes in Rucks County, 1 
Pa. Following is the cost till they are 
planted. As you will see we planted l>y 
hand and covered with a riding cultivator, 
which gives them one cultivation already. 
Now I will give the cost every two weeks 
till Fall and in two weeks will give the 
cost of a five-acre cornfield. 
38 hours plowing (a .40. $15.20 
31 hours harrowing @ .40. 12.40 
15 hours drilling fertilizer @ .40... 6.00 
21 hours disking with cutaway @ 
•40 8.40 
"(a tons 13% phos. acid, 6% potash 
fertilizer © $19.50. 68.25 
9 hours hauling fertilizer @ .40.. 3.60 
93 bushels potatoes @ .50... 46.50 
38 hours cutting seed © .20. 7.60 
12(4 hours marking <5> .40. 5.00 
49 hours dropping by hand © .20.. 9.80 
12y 2 hours covering @ .40..'.. 5.00 
Total cost to May 16.$187.75 
Bucks Co., Pa. m. l. rosenbebger. 
Here we have an average cost of 
$26.82 per acre for the potatoes as 
planted. Compare this cost with the 
next statement. 
No. 6—A Long Island Potato Crop. 
On page 564 we gave the first items 
of expense noted by Chas. L. Foster of 
Long Island. With the potatoes planted 
Mr. Foster charged $874.99 for 16 0 acres, 
or $53.30 per acre. The heaviest item 
was for fertilizer, which cost $567.39, or 
$34.45 per acre. We see that Mr. Roscn- 
berger paid $9.76 per acre for fertilizer. 
You notice Mr. Rosenberger used no ni¬ 
trogen in this fertilizer, and we assume 
that he planted on a clover sod, depending 
on that for nitrogen. On the other hand, 
Mr. Poster used a fertilizer containing 
five per cent ammonia, or nearly 120 
pounds of ammonia per acre. We should 
consider all these things in making com¬ 
parisons. Now Mr. Foster sends the 
items of labor in cultivating up to May 
13. 
April 27-28, 10(4 hours cultivating, 2 
horses .40 .“.. $4.20 
April 27-28. 15 hours cultivating, 1 
horse .30 . 4.50 
April 28-29. 1142 hours wooding, 1 
horse .30 . 3.45 
April 30-Ma.v 3, 12 hours cross-row 
weeding, 1 horse .30. 3.60 
May 11-13, 10 hours cultivating, 2 
horses .40 . 4.00 
May 11-13. 15 hours cultivating, 1 
horse .30 . 4.50 
$24.25 
i his brings the total expense up to 
$-(99.24. 
No. 19—Oats in the Hudson Valley. 
lou wish to know the value of raising a 
B , ' iv ' s ° 111 ' cos t to get a five-acre 
“'■id of oats under cover. Our expenses 
wore almost double what they should have 
been, for wo bad to reseed the entire five 
acres except for a small strip where we 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fell short of seed oats, and use “common 
everyday" seeding oats. We sowed the 
piece April 12, and May 5 reseeded by 
sowing on top of ground, and harrowing 
seed under with a drag harrow well weighed 
down. The Timothy seed of the first seed¬ 
ing came up well, hut the subsequent re¬ 
seeding practically destroyed it. The per¬ 
son the seed oats came from lias been a 
business friend of my father for 40 years, 
and he says lie sold a carload of them, and 
hasn't had any complaint except from us. 
Sufficient to say the second lot came from 
another firm. 
Here is the expense: 
50 hours plowing @ .40. 
8 hours harrowing . 
10 hours rolling . 
5 men pic king off corn butts 15 hours 
© .20 .. 
5 hours carting corn butts with team 
12 hours harrowing under. 
15 bushels oats ... 
Grass seed . 
Freight ... 
Man sowing seed . 
(4 bushel oats . 
$20.00 
3.20 
4.00 
3.00 
2.00 
4.80 
9.75 
5.40 
.65 
1.50 
$54.53 
Reseeding it cost: 
15 bushels oats ..$10.20 
90 bushels grass seed. 5.40 
Man sowing . 1.50 
14 hours team harrowing. 5.60 
$22.70 
So you see it cost us about $15.45 au 
acre. We haven't allowed anything for the 
manure put on this piece this year, hut for 
the last three years it has been heavily fer¬ 
tilized with manure: the first year it was 
broken from sod, where it had been in 
grass for about 20 years. The first year 
it produced 75 bushels corn to the acre, 
second 88, and last year, the drought year, 
119. For the believer in plowing corn 
these facts are worth studying. The first 
and second year the corn was laid away 
with the plow: last year it was only cul¬ 
tivated the last time. Some, people plant 
corn on sod and seed down; we can get 
more corn the second year on a piece of 
this character than the first. .T. b. h. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. 
We are particularly glad to get this 
report, because there is quite a question 
as to whether it pays to attempt to raise 
oats in this section of New York. 
No. 20—Two Massachusetts Corn Crops. 
In the following figures No. 1 repre¬ 
sents a field of sweet corn, 1(4 acres, 
while No. 2 is an acre of flint corn. 
No. 1—1(4 Acre. 
Plowing 11 hours © .40. $4 40 
Harrowing 11 hours @ .40. 4.40 
Bushing 4 hours @ .30.'. . . 1.20 
Marking 3 hours © .30.oo 
Planting 7 hours © .20. 1.40 
Fertilizer 1800 pounds . 23.20 
Sowing fertilizer 4 hours. 80 
Cultivating, May 14, 2V 2 hours @ .50 1.25 
Cultivating. May 23, 4 hours © .50.. 2.00 
Cost of seed . 1.25 
4 loads of manure @ $2. !!!! s!oo 
Total .$28.80 
Our Western readers will question the 
heavy expense for fertilizing these corn 
fields yet experience seems to show that 
the fertilizing pays. This soil is medium 
loam. 
No. 2—-1 Acre. 
Plowing 10 hours © .40.$4.00 
Harrowing 5 hours @ .40. 2.00 
Total .$6.00 
This flint corn had not been planted on 
April 23. s. F. southwick. 
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