The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-03-07
COST OF WHEAT-RAIslNe.
Interesting Information Obtained
Northern Dakota and Manitoba.

Interesting Information Obtained In
Northern Dakota and Manitoba.
just what it costs to raise q bushel
OF wheat on fresh prairie soil is a very
elastic figure, depending very much
upon the season, quality of soil, AND
the way you set about it. | know
cases in which the figures range, for
work only, from fifteen cents to 81, 00
a bushel. Some land owners find it
most profitable to contract with a push
ing man having say three or four sons
all pulling one away and working, with
will, and think it good ay for
all parties. give examples Of this
method from two points nearly three
hundred miles distant from each 9TH
er, and perhaps some one else may
contribute his share. In country
where. within year or two, we may
look for 100000, 600 bushels of the
best hard wheat in the world, such
details are OF more than local interest
The first example is from Dickey
County, D. T.. and is nothing special
as to yield, in fact, l know much bet
ter results that way, though in this
man case the absence OF frost and
the Old Hutch boom have made him
for this season an exceptionally fortu-
nate example. Samuel Glover says:
came here In the spring of 1885. The first
season Ihired !, 800 acres broken and backset,
the next season $50 acres, and the next 100 acres
more. Until this year have had almost all
OF this land farmed on shares. fpaid for break-
ing and back and leased it for one-half
the grain at the threshing machine. fur
nished seed and paid half Of the threshing, the
renter doing all the work. :
The last year i farmed go acres In wheat
near Glover. near Dickev County, with the fol-
lowing result: Received 10, $50 bushels wheat
from 920 acres which have sold as follows:
1850 bushels No. Hard, At si.15. si3, $50. 50 (;
88s7 bushels No. fNorthern at sin6, a, 1873 10;
sS4 bushels No. 2 Northern at sl.00, 1851 30 !;
Total, SIS 276 .66 Cost OF production incfu d.
ing seed and hauling A.278.0o; net profit kl3.-
gg6. 80; average net per acre, SIS. IS. -4----
large portion OF the land farmed on shares
yielded as we'll as the above have had 1000
acres cropped three years, $50 acres two years,
and 100 acres ono year, and my profits from
farming this land have.beea more=than twice
the cost OF the land, and all improvements in
GLIDING breaking and backsetting. Much of
this land was poorly titled and d not pay as
well rs II It had been properly farmed. Many
OF my neighbors can show better results per
acre than do.
My next example Is From the Por tage
Plains, the very choicest wheat land
in Manitoba and nearly three hundred
miles due north OF Dickey. This land
IS nearly nat, never luxuriant vegeta-
ton. but full Of mineral plant food,
scarcely ever touched by frost in
twenty years It does not readily run
to weeds and is full OF staying power.
Messrs. Campbell, who on this land
have raised the very high average Of
thirty bushels per acre for five years
in succession, finding they were too
much engrossed in grain buying to at
tend properly to their crops, have
hired their next seasons crop to a
good working farmer. who with his
family Of grown-up sons is a model
man for a new country. The land is
all fall plowed in good shape and the
seed supplied. The contract Is for
twenty-five and halt cents per
bsfsAei and the work included Is SOW
Ing, narrowing, harvesting, threshing
and delivering grain at the elevator.
say three or four miles distant.
This, / think 4 fairly good price for
the renter, and with an average crop
he-wilI come out well, as he can start
Immediately ,fter seeding to breaking
on his own account, and will have
every hour OF his working time
probably employed The ease Of
working and proximate certainty Of u
good crop are strong points in his
favor, while the land owner from one
crop will collect the price he paid for
The Land . few years ago. As j have
already writton, this is the sunny side
Of wheat farming. Tho man who has
raised i've hundred or one thousand
acres OF straw to burn may now take
'ht door, Cor. Orange Judd Farsner,