Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-01-23
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FARMING IN TIE NORTH WEsT.-A Duluth
lMinn.) correspondent OF the Ns,e- England
Homestead gives the following instances and
Ideas of the profits of farming in the North
west:
"a capitalist, lawyer by profession, failing
In health, bought 1000 acres Of land, twenty
miles from st. Paul, for $4,000. One thou
| sand seven hundred acres were sowed In wheat.
His yield in 1867 was SO, 100 bushels, the gross
price of which was $53, 800; profits $14,500.-
In 1868 his yield was $4,000 bushels, with a
/ net profit of $40 400. Thus FROM two crops he
paid for his lands, building, fencings, and other
| improvements, while the market value of that
land and Improvements Is to-day quite three
their first cost.
A Sweed, broken by chs and fever in peck
ct as well as in health, reached Minnesota with
a cash capital Of $3.50. From his wages as
| hired help he saved enough to purchase a
span Of horses and few implements, and then
bought 120 acres of land at $i2 per acre, paying
merely nominal sum, and agreeing to pay the
balance in three annual instruments, with seven
per cent. interest, the first payment to be made
when he should have obtained his first crop
from the land. lie sowed his entire farm in
wheat, which produced twenty bushels per
acre, making an aggregate of 2,400 bushels,
which he sold for $1,000, paying for the land
{ four times over with single crop, and, after
[ paying for land, expenses, and ilnprov enlents
}
5 his farm tor S27 per acre; or a total of So $40
=; which, added to his net profits, gave him the
sum of S6,240, with which he started anew by
q taking homestead, for which he paii-notll
Ing VI course, IN this Ease, the extraordinary
profit was greatly the result of the exceptional,
Z high piire Of wheat, but 1t 10 Obvious thd
4 with one-half such prlee-the EXPENSES ais,
4 being ess-there would be d handsome maj
gin ufproht, while there are continually pecur
ing chances Of sudden high prices, which al
Al ford brilliant results.
IA A Mr.. Buck settled in Mower County, n
s. this STATE III 1855. He had sufficient mean
/ 10 purchase 4SU acr's of land AT tiOyerninen
II price, upon which he went 10 work. For seve
Is yeats he had much Of hard toll. Now he ha
H. a handsome residence and barn that wi
Is accommodate Ito head Of cattle, 225 tons c
Il hay, and 10000 bushels Of grain. La 1870 Ii
~ | sold $1,000 worth Of stock, and bad left o
T. hand some fifty head OF horses and forty ra
u of cattle.
lie Frederick Hilderbrand writes Robertson
ii Monthly his experience with twenty-se,e i
ls acre farm near ST. Paul, which hr purchase
Or over two years ago, in wild state. lie SAYS
Id Il have iarmed this land two years, only psl
IL in cultivation. 1t pays. Here is the result 1,
&C. the first year: First, we had our living, excel
ls clothing and groceries, from the fam. W
iy sold butter, the product of nine cows for $40,
n 81. We sold eggs and chickens for Sl7G, an
pork and garden stuff for $3.50, making in a
IS sl,2o0, cash income, and paid in expenses ft
as The help Of man on the farm and a girl in IL
house, about 5000
vi a Minnesota farmer, writing to The Heart
fe and Home, says: a man rented l6J acres ,
ali newly-broken prairie land near me last Sprinl
AS and got but about one half crop; but wit
o. that lie paid $1,000 for the land, and no
owns farm upon which 1000 worth of graI
IL was raised in 1883 with wheat at but lit
On over 81 per bushel.
el While the above examples of successful farm
wv Ing may not be the general rule, yet they are ii
MS too numerous to be called exc ptional. liza
al never known farmer to fail OF generous SUI
ny cess in this State who conducted his susine
et on the principles that rule lis class In the Ea:
l Our trouble is, nearly all of US get the lal
mt fever Six hundred and forty dollars Of n
ith profits this year means the purchase of the a
icy Joining quarter section. That means shallc
iey blowing, a repetition of wheat sowing, d,
WIS eAheroitant harvest wages. The wages Of faI
M help here Is enormously high, harvest han
ian averaging from 81 to S. per day Thorou
the cultivation, rotation of crops farms large eiou
ave to be handled easily, are the exceptions. WI
'gg, these evils remedied, the farmers In broporti
III to the amount ofcapital Invested, would be /
zee most successful business men In tho land"