Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-12-02
STATEMENT OF BOYS
CORN CLUB FOR 1872
Yield and Cost Fully Set Forth by
Brazos County Farm Demon
stratioh Agent.

The following is a statement of the
Boys Corn Club work of Braxos coun.
ty for the present year. as gathered
from their own reports of actual ex-
periments with their single and indi-
vidual acres of corn:
The highest yield for a single acre
was So bushels.
The lowest yield for a single acre
was 10 IL bushels.
General average of fifteen acres
froE fifteen different boys, 81 bushels.
This average included both bottom
and hill land.
The highest yield was obtained
from creek bottom land without fer
tilizer.
The lowest yield for bottom land
was 4S IL bushels.
The highest yield for hill land was
40 bushels pounds
The lowest yield for hill land was
~ IL DuSnelS.
The lowest cost of production per
bushel was 10 cents.
The highest cost of production per
bushel was a IL cents.
The greatest net profit on a single
acre was ON the acre with the largest
yield, which cost 10 cents per bushel,
with a net profit of S4S.75.
The greatest profit per bushel was
the S0-bushel acre with a lucent per
bushel cost, and net profit Of $685.
The total average cost Of production
per bushel including fertilizer and
seed, OF the whole fifteen acres was
% 2-3 cents.
Now this statement Is very brief
yet there are enough facts in it to fill
a volume full of good wholesome
thought.
j will say first that each boy made
full and. ] think, very fair state
ment in his bill of cost. Not an item
was left out of any of the reports.
and | consider some of them rather
high, yet we are confronted with the
startling fact that some of this corn
was produced at the remarkably low
figure OF 10 cents per bushel; while
the general average, all cost consid-
cred, was % 2-3 cents Now when we
consider that every acre of this corn
was planted the second time before a
stand was obtained, and some of 1t
was planted in the very last days of
April. and when we remember that
the last rain that fell on this corn
during its growing period was June II,
Just fifty days from the time it was
planted, II is a showing that can not
be beaten by many counties.
Bear In mind that this average was
gotten after the acre that cost Tip
cents per bushel had been included.
Another thing to consider is that
these fifteen acres are scattered all
over the entire county. | think il fair
to state that this acre whose cost of
production per bushel was II 1-2 cents
was situated in one of the poorest
1elds in the county. 1t was planted
very late, and the drouth setting in |
very early, together with the ravages
Of the chinch bug, it is a wonder that |
I made any corn at ALL Yet the |
writer is of the opinion that If this
lcre had been planted in rows five
eet apart instead of three feet, and !
cultivated fiat instead of in high
'harp rides that it would have resisted |
he ravages of both drouth and chinch |
Jugs. and the yield would have been
wo for one. The writer makes this |
from the fact that there is I
mother acre in this list where the |.
and is about as light and poor as the
me just described, and about the |
ame amount of fertilizer used on |
10Th acres, but it was planted in rows
i've feet apart with fat cultivation,
nd the yield was over 40 bushels at 4
cost per bushel of n cents, or net L
roft on the acre of $21.95, while the
ther acre was produced at net loss
f AZ cents, considering the corn
'orth 70 cents per bushel.
There are many other things in this
eport that will receive attention from
he writer. in another article.
A. w. Buchanan,
gent Farm Demonstration Work for
Brazos County.