The Glenwood post., 1911-06-17
Free Street Parade at | p. m.
that $l3o would produce if loaned at 6

that $l3O would produce if loaned at 6
per cent interest.
"Thus, if one acre of land produced
net profit of $40 year, its real value
would be 1888. for 500 is per cent of
that sum. In other words, the annual
profits of farm should be regarded
as per cent of its total value.
"In Colorado property owner is not
satisfied with less than 10 per cent
interest on his investment. Upon that
basis, then, we shall calculate.
"Suppose that a l60-acre Colorado
of potatoes, 20 acres of beets, 60 acres
of wheat and 30 acres of alfalfa. The
average yield of potatoes is l25 sacks,
l2O pounds each, or $4,000 pounds per
acre. The expense of cultivation and
marketing is $35 per acre, which leaves
a profit of $62.50 per acre, or 1926
| for the crop from so acres.
"Average yield of beets, l6 tons per
acre; market price, SIS per tons, or $Ss
per acre; expense of cultivation. $40
per acre. This leaves a profit of $40
per acre, OF $500 for the crop from 90
acres.
"Average yield of wheat, so bushels,
or 5000 pounds; average market price,
81 per hundred weight, or $50 per
acre; expense of cultivation and mar
keting. Sc per acre. net profit, $24 per
acre, or $l,440 for sne crop from 60
acres.
"Average yield of alfalfa, tons
per acre; market price, $5 per ton, or
$25 per acre; e1pense of irrigating
cutting and stacking, $5 per acre; net
profit, $40 per acre or 5000 for the crop
from 80 acres. while the cash profit
on alfalfa is not as large, that crop is
invaluable as fertilizer.)
"By adding together these profits
the reader will find that such farm
would net above expenses a grand
total of 1896. This sum, divided by
100. gives the net profit per acre at
1928.
Gas we have already shown, the net
profit yielded by farm is nothing
more nor less than the interest upon
its real value. Regarding this $37.2
as interest received, and multiplying it
by 10, it becomes evident that an aver
| age Colorado farm is worth to its
owner $372.sO per acre.
"These estimates are extremely con
servative. There are many farms in
different parts of the state that have
given yields far above our estimates.
For instance, the 160-acre farm of R.
NJ. Haythorne, near Eaton. netted him
one year $9,967 profit, or $62 per
acre; and j. NJ. Collins 1904 farm,
also in this vicinity, yielded $4,000, or
about $40 per acre. 1t would require
100000 at 10 per cent interest to pro
duce in one year profit of $4,000
These two farms were, therefore,
worth to their owners over 900, 0,000."
The above estimates will apply in =
general way to the irrigated land of
the whole state.
A recital of the record of premium
yields in different sections of the state
would be so remarkable as to be al.
most unbelievable, and it would not
be fair to publish them, for many
would understand that they were be
ing put forward as "averages.
1t has been found, however, that a
man can produce some phenomenal
crops in this state, all dependent upon
how intensely he cultivates his land
In large part. successful farming in
this or any other state, depends upon
the man, and whore one would make a
phenomenal success his immediate
neighbor might be unable to bring his
crop up to the average.
The average yield per acre Of all
products in Colorado is equal to the
highest in the United States and in
some particulars takes tho, lead. But
the average u not to bs regarded =.