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rolling it once, and if too rank it must be eaten down by sheep, which, how- 
ever, 1s a gain to the farmer. Once ripe, much labour is wanted to fit it for 
market. First come the reaper and binder, then the stooking, followed by 
cartage to the stackyard, and stacking. The next operations consist of 
threshing, winnowing, and bagging. The same processes must be gone through 
in the case of oats, barley, and rice. The latter cereal demands the further 
processes of hulling and polishing. 
The point to be arrived at is the comparative cost of all these operations. 
Taking as a basis for cereals an average yield of 30 bushels per acre, and for 
potatoes 3 tons per acre, the net return works out as follows :— 
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WHEAT IN KANSAS. 
An enthusiastic description of the advanced methods of the Kansas farmer 
is given by Mr. W. Sandover, a Western Australian merchant, who has just 
made a trip through the United States. He states that by the use of manures, 
the best labour-saving implements, and a general exercise of intelligence, the 
average grain yield of wheat in Kansas has been raised to about 29 bushels 
per acre. In districts where the land is particularly rich, the return is some- 
times as much as 50 bushels. Forty years ago the production of 1 bushel of 
wheat required an average of 3 hours’ work. Now it takes only 10 minutes. 
The cost of manual labour was then about 1s. 6d. per bushel; now it is only 
1d. ‘The estimate of the Kansas grain crop this year is 100,000,000 bushels, 
which will be worth about £10,000,000. This will mean a return to the 
farmers of at least £2 per acre. Mr. Sandover says that at Buffalo £3,400,000 
has been spent in the erection of grain elevators. One of these, when he was 
there, emptied 350,000 bushels of oats out of a vessel in 16 hours. Each 
elevator loads 500 railway cars a day.—Pastoralists’ Review. 
