The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-03-24

per hour of horse labor, 1904-1907, was
925 cents at Mortified, $3.50 cents at
Marshall, 1882 cents at Halstad and
7.46 cents on the large farm in North
western Minnesota. The annual cost
of maintaining the farm horse has been
divided by the total number of hours
OF work in a year to obtain the cost
per hour.
The depreciation in value of all
classes of farm machinery is approx
mately 7.3 per cent annually. The an
nual depreciation of the most uni
versally used farm machinery is as
follows: Grain binders, 7.91 per cent;
grain drills, 6.75 per cent; corn bin
ders, 1908 per cent; corn cultivators,
725 per cent; mowers, 7.8 per cent !;
hayrafts, 7.S per cent, sulky plows, S.4
per cent; wagons, 4.89 per cent, har-
rows, 8.72 per cent, and harness, 6.17
per cent.
The annual values consumed per
acre in a number of the most unit.
versally used farm machines are as
follows: Grain binders, 1871 cents /;
grain drills, rs cents; corn binders,
82.6 cents; corn cultivators, 1875 cents !;
mowers, 20.6 cents; hayrakes, S.5
cents; plows, 81 cents, and harrows
IT cents. The term values consum.
er" includes the machinery cost items
of depreciation, interest on investment
and repairs. The average annual acre
| age covered by each class Of machin.
cry is divided into the total cost to
| obtain the cost consumed per acre.
The value in farm machinery con.
sumed per acre for the corn, grain and
hay crop is as follows: Northfield
corn, $1.748; grain, SIT cents; hay
54.8 cents; Marshall, corn, $1.448,
grain, 55.S cents; hay, AT cents; Hal
stad, corn, $1.143; grain, 37.2 cents;
hay, 20 cents; large farm in North.
western Minnesota, grain, 277 cents
threshing outfit, 1875 cents; hay, 20
cents.
Cost Of Field Crops.
The total cost per acre of producing
number of the staple crops of Min.
nesota is as follows, including seed
| chinery depreciation, and land rental:
| Corn husked from the standing stalks
| Mortified, $11.568; Marshall, $9.662
corn cut, shocked and shredded, North.
| field, $15.297; corn grown thickly and
sliced, Mortified, $20.627; Minnesota
Agricultural Experiment station, $19
1877; flax seed, threshed from the wind
row, Mortified, $10.072; Halstad, ST.
272; large farm in Northwestern Min
nesota, $6.283; fodder corn, cut and
shocked in the field, Mortified, $40.
1888; Halstad, $S.912; hay, timothy and
| clover, one cutting, Mortified, $6.1S5;
Marshall, $3.50; Halstad, $4567; man
gels, Minnesota Agricultural Expert
ment station, $32.6S2; oats, fall plowed
Mortified, $9854; Marshall, 5000;
Halstad, $7110; large farm in North.
western Minnesota, $6.073; potatoes
machine production, large farm in
Northwestern Minnesota, $26366; in
tensive culture. $37.7ad; wheat, fall
blowing, Mortified. s9.S61; Marshall
$3.50; Halstad, $6.a1T; large farm in
Northwestern Minnesota, S6.O56.
The net feeding value of forage crops
| per acre, as determined from stats
teal and feeding investigations, is
$3.50 per acre for 21a-ton yield OF
timothy and clover, s4.79 per acre for
a 31a-ton yield of cured fodder corn
| while the net loss on ten tons to the
acre of ensilage is 80 cents, and for a
2C-ton yield of mangels, $66S. One
dollar expended in capital and labor in
! hay production gives a return of 1921
fodder corn, $1.3S; ensilage, SO cents
and mangels, 70 cents. Under condi.
lions of higher land values and rela.
lively higher prices for feeds than are
assumed in table XXI, these relative
net values or net losses would not ap
ply.