Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-06

TOTAL. ptOJ 10
This sum he will absolutely require to have
when he arrives On the land. To this, in his
calculations, he must add his expenses coming
here.
Now having no crop the first year. he works
out in the harvest and earns $50. This he re-
quires now, and more when he puts in his first
crop, but, as he will get time for some, perhaps
all of the following charges we will not
charge them to his original capital
SECOND SPRINGS WORK AND EXPENSES.
drag to put in the crop, shaking the
seed by hand. ......................$ II 90
Seed wheat for 80 acres, bushel and2
peckS to the acre .............. 20 w
Hires his grain cut and bound. rs 90
Shocking, stacking etc., done by ex-
changing work with neighbors.
Machine threshing at 5 cents bushel.. 80 90
Extra labor done by exchanging work.
Total. -. .$2l2 OO
We have now come down to the harvest and
the second year on the land.
Up to this the settlers expenses have been
$62l.75.
Let us see what the land is likely to set off
against this sum:
80 acres of wheat, 20 bushels to the
Charges GIL Is
Balance in favor of crop. ........ $S7S rs
Adding to this the sixty dollars the man
earned the first harvest he has in hand $438.25.
| It must be borne in mind that the settler has
| supported himself and family for sixteen
months, his home is made, st ock paid for, his
farm opened, and at least $500 added to the
! value of his land. We will suppose that he
| plows the second year fifty acres more, and has
| one hundred acres under his second crop. With
| this good set off, we leave him. Now we will
| give the
CASH EXPENSES
for the same number of acres, where a man
hires all his work done. He may prefer to do
this, to buying cattle and horses to break, as
| he may be a man who can earn high wages
until his first crop comes in.
Breaking so acres, at $3.50 per acre. $l25 90
Seed wheat ....... rs 90
Seeding and dragging, at 80 cents per
acre. ......... 40 w
Cutting and binding, $3.50 per acre.. rs 90
Stacking, five days, two men and team. % 90
| Threshing and hauling to market. at IL
cents a bushel. Observation-Disclosures. lZU w
Cash expenses of crop. ........... $465 90
CREDITS.
| Fifty acres of wheat, 20 bushels to
the acre, at 81 per bushel. ........ 81, 900 90
| Charged to the crop ............... 465 90
Balance in favor of crop. ....... 1886 90
Now, the expense of breaking, by right,
should not be charged to the first crop, for it
| is permanent value added to the value of
the land, and should be calculated as capital;
| so acres broken on farm of 100, adds fully 90
| an acre to the value of the property.
| But in the above calculation, we have not
alone charged the first crop with the breaking
expenses, but also with cash price of every dol
lars worth of labor expended, until the wheat
| is in the railroad elevator, and the owner has
| nothing more to do unless to receive the money
| for it; and yet there is clear profit over all
| expenses of $685..
| In making these calculations, it is necessary
to put certain value on the wheat per bushel,
| and to allox for certain amount of bushels
to the acre, but il VIII be obvious to any reader
that in both these important items there are
continual variations. The calculations we
now give appeared in the edition of our
pamphlet for 1877, and were based, in meas
ure, on our fine wheat crop for that year. The