Show figures computed from surveys rode by the ohio experiment station shows hows that tofiq the production cost ol of in an I 1 I 1 average bushel ot of wheat in ohio is 6 1212 12 the cost price was secured from the average cost of producing crops for a ten year period from 1906 to 1915 as determined by the ohio station and it a fair compensation being addea for the advance since 1915 in cost of rent man and horse labor machinery seed and fertilizers from the period from 1906 to 1915 the labor cost per aire acre for wheat was found to be 8 86 as compared with to the acre for 1918 when man labor was figured at 25 cents an hour and team labor at 30 cents cent an hour the estimated field labor expended in the production of an acre of wheat was 27 man hours and 38 horse h hours ours with higher figures for man labor the average being 35 cents an hour he cost of wheat reaches a bushel for the average of the states yield which is placed at 16 bushels to the acre |