Show that extra dollar dry farming congress service it requires approximately seven dollars per acre to grow a crop this includes interest on the investment cost of seed wear and tear on farm machinery labor etc by adding one dollars worth of labor to each acre there is little question but that the average profits would be doubled in other words as much profit should be reali realize realized zeI from the one additional dollars worth of labor as is now realized from the seven dollars worth of unavoidable labor and investment consequently if farmers would devote one third of their land to growing corn and alfalfa neither of which interferes with the time and labor employed in farming wheat ands and put one third more labor thus made a on only two thirds as many maily acres of wheat they would grow more wheat than where they spread their energies over one third larger acreage the corn and alfalfa fed to live stock would insure them a large additional dit ional income and one that thai i is s not often adversely influenced by climatic conditions while the fertility deposited upon n the farm resulting from feeding the corn and alfalfa to live stock would vastly improve the productiveness of the soil J H west north dakota |