Colorado Agricultural Colllgl Farm Costs. 
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In Table No. 61 are summarized the average amount of man 
hours, horse hours, and the average cost of the labor required to 
produce a bushel of oats, a bushel of wheat, a ton of alfalfa, and a 
ton of silage. The labor cost to produce oats or wheat is seen to 
be not far different when reduced to bushel units with the yields 
prevailing under our conditions. A similar statement may be made 
in regard to the production of ton units of alfalfa or silage. The 
total amount of labor for each unit of production is almost the same 
in each case. 
TABLE No. 61. 
AVERAGE TOTAL MAN AND HORSE LABOR COST. 
1 
For One 
Bushel Oats 
For One 
Bushel Wheat 
For One 
| Ton Alfalfa 
For One 
Ton Silage 
Man hours . 
0.44 
0.51 
9.16 
8.98 
Horse hours . 
0.66 
0.81 
8.12 
9.19 
Total average labor cost per bu. 
$0.17 
$0.20 
$2.85 
$2.94 
The actual cost in dollars and cents to different individual 
farmers may vary considerably from the figures given here, because 
the price paid to labor may be considerably different than that paid 
upon the College Farm. It may be higher, and it may be lower, 
but a direct means of comparison is possible if the number of man 
hours and the number of horse hours are considered. 
While space forbids a detailed statement of the cost of produc¬ 
tion on individual fields, a summary of the man labor, horse labor, 
total machinery, and total costs may be of interest as showing what 
the College land actually produced in returns. In Table No. 62 are 
given these figures on the thirty-seven fields under consideration. 
Some of these fields continually return a loss because they are 
worked by the College Farm for other departments. This is true 
of those fields used for pasture purposes, and in those years in 
which alfalfa is seeded fields almost without exception show a loss. 
Sometimes fields show a loss because of the character of the crop 
put in. Usually this is expected by the Farm Manager, but in order 
to best serve the institution, it is sometimes necessary to put crops 
upon the fields which will return a loss. This may be good institu¬ 
tional policy because of the inter-relation of departments, tho 
it is poor business from the standpoint of economical land manage¬ 
ment. Some crops are required in instructional work which can 
only be obtained by growing them ourselves. By an examination of 
