The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-03-01

to YOUR readers some kind of idea as to this mans
future on an 80 acre farm, which has to be cleared
and put into cultivation By the time he has got 20
acres of CROP be it potatoes, sweet potatoes, grain,
roots or cabbage, all of these, suspect his $oS
balance will be wholly eaten up, and it would inter
est many to see where and how his annual payment
on land with interest plus his family expenditure, is
lkel to be made in profits. 1t may be worth your
attention to devote column in your March paper to
fair detailed statement of all expenditures such as
those in your number two adding however, ap-
proximate estimate of the costs and results OF one
years farming, say within six miles of Rugby, in
the supposed case of man with two boys and two
girls of tender age also wife and full stock OF all
clothes and soft housefurnishings-b which mean
bedding, carpets and such ike-whch items people
generally bring with them; also capital of, say,
S., 900.
Such man would want, suppose, 200 acres of
land and rather better accommodation than the
horny-handed son of toll whose $500 is perhaps an
ample capital for man who has worked for wages
only.
would 60 further, and suggest that an estimate
such as propose, may be very valuable to yet an
other class of possible settlers | mean man who
wants to start upon 500 acre farm and who has
$4,000 cash capital
There is always, in such cases, something wanted
beyond the knowledge how merely to make the two
ends meet at the start. A man should be able to
calculate how he is to meet his annual payments for
land and lot, besides his living and expenses of
clearing &c.
He must see his way to make profit, or how can
he pay off his liability, supposng he is required to
expend almost his whole capital in starting?
Now, with all Difference to the views expressed by
Mr. Hughes, regarding the inexpedency of calcuat
ing upon any profits in taking up your Rugby lands
| cannot see how you will be able to tempt set
ar leact
preaching human certainty of making a decent
profit
Mr.. Hill can, am sure, supply reliable data for
such estimates as venture to suggest indispensa
ble If he does this let him bear in mind that sheep
and cattle, of good quality land nothing else pays
anywhere,) cannot be made to pay till pasturage,
fencing, wnter-keep and cognate questions are put
N. B.-Deferred payments upon land are of little
value unless the buyer sees his way to make the land
actually pay in profit, the annual increments
After we had carefully re read our correspondents
letter, turned to Mr. HILL who had waited patient
ly the WHILE and remarking that there seemed good
deal of reason in friends suggestions, asked him
what he thought about them Well, sir" he re-
piled, "the gentleman knows nothing about shifting
in the woods at ALL He says you can't turn out
Sneep III the WOODS lot IcdT OF DuTrS. never pas
tured sheep in field since was here, and never
lost but one, which died suddenly in the woods;
never had one killed and as to burrs, why there
amt any. | have sold wool from sheep raised in
the woods for 81 cents per pound, when they were
paying only 50 cents for wool off sheep raised round
Knoxville. The first shanty ever went into in my
life in North Michigan, and cost me $r3 l can
put up in this country, at this time, log house
which would suit me for $40. can do it, sir right
straight You have plenty of timber, and you can
get the flooring and ceiling by exchanging work with
man who has team, and he'll haul the logs to a
saw MILL and there you could get them cut on halves
without paying single dollar can show you
twenty families living in reasonable comfort, none of
whose furniture cost them more than $40. If man
is handy, he can make his own furniture to begin
with, except bake kettles and spiders He could
get along we'll enough without cooking stoves Some
of the people here won't use them. AS to the bal
ance of the $IoS not being suffcient-wel can
give you an instance within my own knowledge