Logan Republican | 1905-06-07 | Page 4 | Value of One Acre

VALUE OF ONE ACRE. Small Piece of Ground Can Be Made to Yield Good Results. It may he unusual to estimate the amount of pork that can be produced from an aero of certain crops, but the pioblem ban been solved In n very Interesting way. it Is clnlmcd that an acre of land In clover will produce 800 pounds of pork; pens, 37fi pounds; corn, C50 pounds; oats, 320 pounds; v bnrley, 420 pounds, and wheat, 225 fi pounds. The value of each crop on one acre when converted Into pork is aH follows: Clover, 132; ote, $22.40; pens, $15; barley, $16.80; oatB, $13.20 nnd wheat, $9, estimating the pork at r"T four cents per pound. Of course something some-thing depends on the prices ruling for the crops. The amount of produce per aero required to glvo the pork mentioned men-tioned on an acre Is 900 pounds of wheat, 1,680 pounds of barley, 1,320 pounds of oats, 2,240 pounds of corn, 15,000 pounds of peas, and 12,000 pounds of -green clover.