Show COST 01 OF RAISING GRAIN A WEBER COUNTY marmer FARMER PROVES THAT WHEAT CAN NOT BE RAISED profitably AT SIXTY CENTS PER ren BUSHEL harris HARBIS harrisville VILLE weber co utah nov iov 1885 editor deseret news in your issue of nov a kays ville correspondent writing under date of nov ath on the all important WHEAT QUESTION says that his dry land wheat has not ca cost st him for two years past sects per bushel in reply I 1 will say that the past two years have been very favorable to dry lears farming a mi nf but if I 1 mistake not other years nave have been equally disastrous and then again our friend does not state the value of his place on which 1 he I e raised his bushels of chett bu but t judging by dry land yields hereabouts he he must have had acres valuing said land at 25 per acre would be interest on this investment at I 1 per centner cent per month for two vears years would amount to goo soo as our friend says it is a rule of his not to raise 9 grain rain on the tho same ground two years insua in succession now mr editor this Is NO amplification for lots of our farmers are paying from I 1 4 to 2 per cent per month but possibly our hays Kays kaysville ville correspondent does not consider his investment worth anything if he wishes however to sell his place and rent out the money at one per cent he could get four returns a year whereas now he only gets one return in two years now regarding the irrigated land that must be a very valuable piece of land to turn bushels to the acre with such little expense I 1 presume he never manures it for I 1 dont see any fertilizing expense in the list and d he must not have ten miles of a ditch to clean out as we have in or it would cost him more than four dollars for cleaning clea ditches if he lived liere here it would cost him that amount to pay baythe the w ater master to keep water in the ditch for him now allow me to give A STATEMENT of costs of moy roy wheat crop plowing and li 13 acres sto 00 dol doi 1114 it at f total 1323 13 35 sowing roo doo fertilizing each year 1500 total 17 00 cleaning out water ditches ten days 1500 15 00 watering twice iw ice 1 loo 00 Cutt cutting ipg binding and chocking 33 00 hauling ilan lian t inz ing and stacking two hands two days day with team 8 00 th threshing re dehing hing 10 hands one day the ma chine broke broko down 15 CO boarding 15 hands 45 meals at per meal fi 73 75 taxes on the land for one year 4 00 thirteen acres of 0 and land worth 0 interest at 1 per cent IS 78 00 total 00 the total yield was bushels tolland toll and feed teed off 26 remaining eso at iga CO 00 balance duo due me loo I 1 shall be ever so much pleased if our fortunate brother farmer would send me a check to cover my losses as live acres of the land ment loOd lone ione d was in corn last year and the worms made the corn crop a total failure I 1 dont think I 1 have overestimated over estimated the value of my land as the water right cost me 10 per acre and I 1 made a ditch from the main channel a distance of one and a half balf miles at a cost of at least I 1 would not sell that 13 acres for that amount the foregoing would be a full aver ver age for the farms of our settlement I 1 know inov of no farm here of 0 acres that would yield more than so 35 bushels to the acre on an average martin 11 II harris is one of our best heat ma and has summer fallowed fallowes fall owed nis his land alternately for 1 20 11 years past and his yield does not exceed 40 bushels on a ten acre piece if our investments for farms jarms and utensils are worth anything I 1 do not think wheat can be raised to pay for less liss than DO cents per bushel yours reter PETER eit ert LATER |