Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Cost of Growing Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Growing Wheat.

The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a summary made from estimates of 25.000 farmers of the West and Northwest and of 4,000 experts of the department on the cost of growing wheat. The average cost per acre for the reg*«on covered is $11.09, while the average for Wisconsin is more than a dollar higher, or $12.93. Ground rent is the heaviest single item, and estimated at nearly $3 pfer acre. The principal items of cost have rema ned about normal during the past four or five years, being slightly higher where any change is noted, owing to increase of cost of labor during the prosperous times from 1890 to 1892. During that period, however, the price of wheat fell nearly one-half. As a result either wheat production must be restricted or* a large part of it must be done at a loss.