“Cost of Corn Production” letter to the editor in The Southern Planter, February, 1908
I look for the Southern Planter with great interest, as I
get so much valuable information from it. I am a small farmer and want to
answer a gentleman’s question in the November number, “Does It Pay to Raise
Corn?” I will give him my experience: I rented three acres of sandy land at $3
per acre--$9. I put eight tubs (which is a kerosene barrel cut in half) of fish
offal to the acre that cost 25 cents per tub--$8. The work cost $6.80. Total,
$23.80. I gathered 22 barrels of corn, for which I could have gotten $3 per
barrel--$66—and 3,200 pounds of good fodder, at $1 per hundred, $32. Total,
$98. I made clear $74.20 in a rainy season. In a good year I would have gotten
10 barrels per acre. At this rate it surely pays to raise corn.
D.G. Bond, Chowan County, N.C.
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