INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF CASH RETURNS
A Lincoln county, Kansas, farmer writes that from five acres of alfalfa he received in one season $100 for hay, $150 for seed and $20 for straw.
A farmer near Atwood, Rawlins county, Kansas, cut two crops for hay and threshed the third crop for seed, realizing 13 bushels per acre, which sold at $5 per bushel.
A Harlan county, Nebraska, farmer reports an income of $774 in one year from seed and hay from six acres.
Scott Bros., of Pottawatomie county, Kansas, report to the author as follows concerning their returns from a twelve-acre field in one year:
| 2 hay crops, 30 tons at $12 | $360 |
| 105 bushels of seed at $6 | 630 |
| Straw | 50 |
| Fourth cutting, 12 tons at $12 | 144 |
| Total, one year’s return | $1,184 |
A Buffalo county, Nebraska, farmer sold from a year’s growth on 22 acres, hay worth $328.12, seed $1000, and straw $150.
A Montgomery county, Kansas, farmer reports to the author a return of $106 per acre in one year from hay, seed and straw.
Another report was sent in 1904 from southern Kansas, of five cuttings, making 81⁄2 tons per acre, which sold at $5 per ton in the field.