Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-02-07
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

in the Growing of Wheat. The
+ Territory way Ahead.
EDITOR A1ERT:-It might be of some
interest as we'll as value to the many
readers of your paper to give them the
cost per acre, also, per bushel of raising
No. hard wheat in Stutsman county.
] will give you the estimate made by
some of our prominent farmers and also
compare their figures with thelast official
report from Michigan-one of the great
winter wheat states.
The cost of raising bushel OF wheat
in the four southern tiers of counties of
Michigan was $13.55 per acre or 66 cents
per bushel. u42
In the central tier it was 1926 per acre
or GA cents per bushel.
In the northernHier it was $11.53 or 571S
cents per bushel.
They received for their wheat in the
four southern tiers of counties 81 cents
and in the other portions of the state sc
cents.
The figures I have obtained from our
farmers are not based on the lowest mini
mum price of labor, but the usual prices
paid for man and team, which are from $3.-
so $3.50 per day. T will only itemize one to
show how the amount is made up as all
of the balance are made upon very SINH
lar reckoning, some placing the blowing
a little higher and some lower, also differ
ing slightly in the figures for seeding,
narrowing and threshing.
Rent of ground. 81 90 per acre
Seed. L w per acre
FlOWlnS ......... L 20 per acre
Dragging twice. ........... 20 per acre
Seeding .,....... :,....,. 70 per acre
Harvesting, tw1ne and put
ting in shock. ........ / 90 per acre
Threshing, say Is bushels
per acre and marketing. 2 90 per acre
Total Sc 70 per acre
or 4425 cents per bushel.
The above is made by J. w. Goodrich,
jamestown, Oak,
Other cost figures are given as follows:
Eddy. .....s6 SO u acre, OF 46c u bu
0,V White l3 y acre. or 47c u bn
Henry Sleight
Charles Frey
J.J Frey. =. z 45 u acre, or 49c q bu
T Mills. 6 S. e acre, or 44c u bu
w A Bartholo-.
new of Pin
gree, D. t.. 7 10 u acre, or 47c y bu
and some others, all within fifty cents
per acre of the above figures. The above
are all based on fifteen bushels per acre
which is very much below the average
with fair crops.
On the basis of twenty bushels it will
cost 3614 cents per bushel at 25 bushels
per acre 80 cents per bushel, and at 30
bushels per acre 2e1s cents per bushel.
We received for our wheat the average
price of $1.02 per bushel while the Michi-
gan farmer received for his 96 cents and
they having IN their favor from 900 to
1000 miles of transportation. We all can
readily see as the stockmen say ''blood
will tell" So will No. l hard.
Twill close by giving one more fact for
our eastern friends to digest. The states
with their cheap machinery and labor
have reduced the cost of raising their
wheat to the lowest possible minimum
price. While we with our high priced
machinery and extravagant ways of farm
ing have hardly reached the first princi-
pie of economy although We have re-
duced the cost of raising wheat since
came to the territory fully Is cents per
bushel. We could be able to reduce it
fully 10 cents per bushel more before we
get down to the lowest minimum price of
raising our No. hard. @. WADE.
Jamestown, Oak.
Dak0ta,s Good Hotels.