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.
SOME REPORTS OF YIELDS
A farmer of Harvey county, Kansas, reported in 1903 two hay crops and one seed crop, the hay, seed and straw returning more than $50 per acre from a field that two years before had failed to yield enough corn to justify its gathering.
Sixteen acres in Reno county, Kansas, are reported to have pastured in 1904 four hundred pigs and yielded one cutting of hay of over 16 tons.
An alfalfa field of eleven acres in Washington, on the bank of the Columbia river, under irrigation, produced in 1901 over 100 tons of hay.