Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-03

lTangement OF crops and live STOCK
may be made as will give the largest
met returns.
| II. 70 collect maps of actual sur
Yeys from many farms to be used in
working out examples of re-organized
field plans with systematic crop ro-
| tatiOns.
II. To assist in inaugurating
simple systems Of accounts for the
farm business and the farm house,
hold.
IL. To secure data concerning the
farm home, as the cost Of living, the
value Of foods grown on the farm,
and the cost OF boarding hired help.
IA. To provide practical data to
be used in schools, as consolidated
rural schools, agricultural high
schools, and agricultural colleges, in
teaching the facts and principles of
farm management.
RESULTS.
l. The average length of the
working--day for men on the farms at
Mortified, southeastern Minnesota,
is $50 hours, with $40 hours for
Sunday work. At MARSHALL, in
southwestern Minnesota, 20 hours
for the week days and 2.99 hours for
Sundays; and at Halstad, in north
western Minnesota, 7.43 hours for
the week days and 2.l9 hours for
Sundays. The average length of the
working day for horses at Northfield
southeastern Minnesota, is 3.O9
hours; at Marshall, southwestern
Minnesota, 1920 hours, and at Hal
stad, northwestern Minnesota, $50
hours.
2. The cash value per hour of farm
labor ranges from 3 cents in the
winter months to "A cents in the
seasons of greatest activity, and an
average of all months is approx
mately IL cents per hour. Cash
value Of farm labor is based upon
wages paid to men hired by the
month or season, plus the cost of
their board.
3. The cost of board on farms is
approximately .ss11 per month per
man, or 3715 cents per day.
4. The average cash value per
hour of horse labor on farms is ap-
proixmately ~ cents. Cash value
of Eorse labor is based upon the cost
to the farmer of maintaining a farm
work horse for one year, including
interest on in 1estment and depl ecia-
tion, is from S75 to 800.
5. The values in farm machinery
consumed per acre for the grain,
corn, and hay crops are as follows:
Mortified, southeastern Minnesota,
grain, 44.6 cents; corn, Sl.20; hay, a.
cents. Marshall, southwestern
Minnesota, grain, 1915 cents; corn,
s1.l6; hay, 37.8 cents. Halstad,
northwestern Minnesota, grain, "a. 4
cents; corn, 1876 cents; hay, 80.
cents. Large farm in northwestern
! Minnesota, grain, 22.S cents; hay,
1913 cents.
6. The total cost per acre of pro-
ducing the staple crops of ear corn,
fodder corn, hay, oats, barley, and
wheat is as follows: Mortified,
southeastern Minnesota, corn, husk.
ed from standing stalks, SLIT; fodder
corn, Sl2. 20; clover and timothy hay,
s6,97; wild hay, $3.50; oats, 1884,
and barley, 1913. Marshall, south.
western Minnesota, corn, husked
from the standing stalks, SO. SO; wilo
hay, s5.19; oats,S 8.S; barley, 1888,
and wheat $3.50. Halstad, north.
western Minnesota, foder corn shock.
ed in the field, sS.0S; wild hay,
2.S7; oats, 1881; barley, s6.4l, anc
wheat, 1925. Large farm in north.
western Minnesota, fodder corr
shocked in the field, 1852; wi]c
hay, 1929; oats, S5.8S; barley, S5.97
and wheat, 5.82.
| I. The total cost per bushel O.
thrashing wheat from the shock al
Halstad, northwestern Minnesota, is
IA cents, and when stacked anc
stack-thrashed, l0.l cents. Oats
when thrashed from the shock at
| Mortified, southeastern Minnesota,
cost 4.3 cents per bushel to thrash
and when stacked and stack-thrash
ed, So cents per bushel. Thrashine
oats from the shock at Halstad
northwestern minnesota, cost 81
cents per bushel, and stacking and
stack-thrashing, 40 cents per bushel
Barley, thrashed from the shock at
Mortified, southeastern Minnesota
cost 4.8 cents per bushel, and when
stacked and stack thrashed, SO
cents; and at Halstad, northwestern
Minnesota, barley cost IA cents pei
bushels to thrash from the shock,
and when stacked and stack thrasheC