The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-05-02

that my force was not sufficient to Sc
cure the crop had made, | was COM
PEELED TO purchase one man, two mules
and four oxen; thus making, altogether,
eight persons, four mules, and four
oxen.
Commencing under the extreme dis
advantages incident to the impoverish.
ed condition of the soil, after an out
lay of one hundred and ninety 1--WE dol
lars for manure, which was the mini
mum expended in any one Of the seven
years mentioned, | was enabled to sell
from the place only the value Of two
hundred and two dollars and ninety.six
cents. So that the account for that
year stands thus:
Value Of crop sold 2O2:96
Cost Of manure l95:00
Net product 1896
The following year the result was
but little better. The third year avery
decided improvement had taken place.
In 1851, my crop had increased TO one
thousand one hundred and twenty BUSH
els of wheat, one hundred and seventy
five barrels of corn by estimate, and a
large crop Of fodder, oats and clover
hay. In 1889, after an expenditure Of
three hundred and seventy two dollars
for manure, was enabled to sell the
value Of one thousand three hundred
and fourteen dollars and six cents, be-
sides retaining upon the farm seed
wheat, corn, fodder, oats, hay and pork
all Of which might have been valued
at one thousand dollars. So that the
amount may be thus stated:
Amount sold from the farm l,3l4:06
Deduct for manure 372:00
Net product 942:O6
Amount retained at home 100000
Making, after paying for manure, l,942:O6
Which gives. if the carriage driver is
not included, an average Of two hundred
and forty-two dollars and seventy.ive
cents to the hand +; and including the car.
riage driver an average Of two hundred
and fifteen dollars and seventy eight
cents and this, too, Notwithstanding |
sold my wheat crop, twelve hundred
and fifty bushels, at cighty-fiye cents
per bushel, then the market price,
which subsequently rose in value to one
dollar and twenty cents per bushel |;
thus making difference Of four hun
dred and twenty dullars. And ! might
Furthermore add, that at least twenty
thousand pounds OF clover hay, which
might have been cut and sold at fifteen
dollars per ton, and the product added
10 the foregoingestimate, was permitted
to fall upon the land.
Coming down still farther, we find
the product Of the farm TO be still re-
gularly on the increase. In 1858 the
value was 1851, being more than one
thousand dollars above that Of the pre-
ceding year; and in 1884 il was s270S,
besides the crops now remaining on
hand. This increased result IS, how
ever, to be ascribed in part to the adj
vance in the price Of wheat, which
reached its maximum, so far as these
calculations are concerned, during the
past year. On the other hand, the
crops Of 1854 were inferior in quantity
and quality to those Of the preceding
year. Unless some disaster happens,
I confidently anticipate a proportionate
increase during the present year.
But to sum up all in few words |:
After having supplied about thirty per-
sons and two horses not connected with
the farming operations, have been
enabled to attain at the end Of seven
years a net increase Of more than
hundred fold. The manurcs | have
applied are telling and will continue
to tell in subsequent years, and the
whole place maniiests evidences Of a
high and increasing state Of improve
ment. Its capabilities | now consider
to be thirty bushels Of wheat, or one
thousand pounds Of tobacco, TO the a.
Gre.
Now, as to The value Of the place, /
have no other than the foregoing data
TO govern me, and consequently must
give my individual opinion for what il
IS worth, and leave others to decide for
themselves. As a tract, consider il
worth sixty dollars per acre. or nine
teen thousand aud twenty dollars. To
this should Of right be added the in
creased amount ol receipts over ..expen-
ditures--say si62s, indicated in the
second column-and the result,will be
a clear gain of 800, ,84s, or s36S,7l pei
hand per annum, for seven consecu.