The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-24
$4,000
, 5000
$4,000


calculation based upon So per month for labor
all other expenses, production and price OF
products would only alter the foregoing calcu-
fation on labor S4S less expense, which take
from the $50 loss, and you have loss OF Slz
and cost of cultivation per acre of $1s: And
calculation at IS per month reduces the cost
$72. and gives profit of only S12 and cost
per acre for cultivation of $3.50.
Thus it will be seen that this system OF ag.
riculture Is not only trouble and vexatlon OF
spirit, but losing business all the time. Some
may contend that these calculations are not
based on proper data; that we should not
connt in ten per cent. on value; but only
thought is sufficient to see that SIPS at interest
tan wears aecumulates, with interest added, to
$250Aas little as any capitalist would realize.
IF the horse should live ten years at ten per
cent. wear, $l25, and ten per cent. on the pur-
chase. S125 more is what he should realize. 1t
is objected that the rent of land should not be
charged. This might do if it cost nothing to
clear and fence land ready for cultivation.
Again it is objected that S75 is too much tor
horse feed. This objection might be well taken
if corn did not exceed rs cents per bushei with
the addition of plenty cheap long forage and
pasturage; but corn at 81 per bushel, and IA
pounds or peck per day for 365 days, makes
so bushels, to say nothing about high priced
bought hay. Your committee is of the opin-
ion that these items are legitimate and that the
amounts are not extravagant.
Your committee would now show state.
ment of the account under our system of rent
ing furnishing land, team, feed, tools, &C,
against labor for one-half the products In
this account nothing is. charged for rent, but
charge ten per cent for wear of land.
Estimating land ready for cultivation at $40
per acre-16 acres-amounts to Sl6O.
Board of horse.......................:.. 7oOO
Tools $40, interest on horse............:... 2250
Wear of horse, $3.50, wear of land SIG $3.50
Tax on land and horse at present rates. 500
s1s4oo
prodncts a. before. cotton
Products as before, corn.........."........ 1ZOOO
Sloo.VO
Profit ...................... 400
Your committee would suggest that, were it
possible to do so, it is better to furnish land
only and rent for one-third of the corn and
one-fourth of the cotton. There is no expense
only wear of land and tax on land and
horse.
The account would stand thus:
One-third of S120-corn.............. 90
One fourth of $156-cotton. $500
$500
Wear of land SIG, tax 8..................... 20O
Profit
Your committee, at the risk Of being thought
tedious, would like to present this vexed ques-
ton in another form, where wages were given
for labor on larger seale-say farm OF 300
acres. To carry on this it requires at least II
first class plow horses, worth $3.50 each, and "a
hands, giving each horse and two hands 25
acres-half in cotton and half in corn--wages
at So per month:
Two hands at ss per month for year..s1920o
Board of two hands. 10000
Tools for two hands ds...................... 1900
Feed of horse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $500
Interest on $3.50, horse, 10 per cent...... 1900
Wear of horse 10 per cent................. 1900
Rent on 25 acres Of land...."."........ 5000