The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12

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Cultivation and sowing ,........-..... so
Harvesting and stacking ............- I %
Ihreshins and marketing .......s.~--..-. 2 90
Total. IS 95
Statistics of a farm of 16O acres DIR.
Flowing l60 acres at 81. ...........-.-- $3.50
Seed for same, 240 bu at 80 cents $1,000. 1872
Cultiyating and sowing, at 50c per acre, go
Harvesting and stacking, at &1.25 per acre 200
ThTeshing and marketing 3, 200 bu at l0ca z
Interest on capital invested, $1,000, at 10
per cent one year y
Total s1,152
Or.
Crop of 5000 bu yield 20 bu an acre1
Balance to net profit. LASS
Cost of production per acre Including
interest ........,.. .--................. Ga ~
Cost of production per bushel. ........... SO
REMARKS.
@The cost of production depends upon the
methods employed by the farmer, upon his
means. and on the character and extent OF
his operations. The figures given I'M the
nished by several farmers ont of their own
experience in Central Dakota during the
past two and three years. and are based upon
what it costs the average farmer, who puts
IN his own time behind the pillow, with the
.ieip 0f perhaps, a couple of men to prepare
the ground and put in the crop, and who
hires his threshing and has his harvesting
done with other machinery than his own
His invested capital of -, 900 includes the
cost of his house and other improvements.
including the first cultivation of his ground
by @breaking" it with the pillow, his barn and
outbuildings, and the cost OF the two or
three horses, the cow or two, and the few
agricultural implements he has been able to
buy since making a start in Dakota, say a
couple of years before he takes on the above
crop We will say that he is living ON, a
homestead, the title OF which he will acquire
fpoa altar a rnai6QnnQ of hVa VnarR
tx he had bought 100 acres of
decided land, of which there is plenty
for sale in Dakota, it would have.
only required from $500 to $500 additional cap
anywhere in Dakota, except in the Immediate
vicinity of the larger towns. The yield OF
twenty bushels to the acre is considered a fair
average on q farm well cultivated. An acre OF
land in Dakota, under the highest state of Gull
~tivation, has been known to yield over thirty
five bushels, and twenty-five bushels are FREE
auently obtained from every acre OF q WE'LL
titled field. In computing the general AVERAGE,
of the entire crop of Dakota for one season,
there are individual losses to be taken into ac-
count, which have occurred through lack OF cnllt
~tivation or from the destructive efects or lA1t
and wlnd In a few localities. Inc question
which is the better of according to his capitak
invested-the bonanza wheat king or the small
farmer-remains an open one, and can only bes
definitely settled after the experimental period
of farming in Dakota ON both the large and the
small scale has demonstrated the actual average
results Of each, from which comparisons may no.
safely drawn.
RATE OF TAXATION.
The tables of rates OF taxation present.
some interesting comparisons, owing TO the
representative character of the counties
taken from each of the three sections OF
Dakota east of the Missouri river. There Is
the same necessity for guarding against
oyer-Baxation IN Dakota that is found TO,
exist in all new countries. where a spirit or
extraordinary activity prevails and the rapid
development seems to point TO the speedy
accumulation of wealth. which should be as
speedily put to various uses. There iSa lia-
bility to incur indebtedness on account
of expensive public improvements that
would be q credit to q ountr or
thirty years growth In this way taxes are
apt to be run upto a rate which. while lhmay
not seem to be at all oppressive, Is OF q
reality excessive, and is calculated 90 oper-
ate to the disadvantage of a community in
after wears, when there Is a call for further
expenditures on account OF new enterprises
which in a country as full or energy ana III
centive as Dakota are constantly croWulng
TO the front. There is nothing alarming,
however in the present rates OF taxation on
farm property i'm Dakota. and an examina-
tion of comparative statistics. such as are
afforded Dy the taDies given below, dHu %
The kind which it will be the province OF the
territorial statistician to furnish in the
future, ought to have a good effect IN the
CuQeayOT exClOCus OH Tic HNiu Va ~ 49,
PAYERS of the different counties to correcG
any inequalities that may exist. and to keep
their taxes down to the, lowest point con-
sistent with q sound public economy
The rates Of taxation are as follows: Yankton
county, Southern Dakota Rate OF 81 In mills;
total. %. The assessed valuation OF property IN
Yankton county, against which the above rates
of taxation is applied runs about as follows
Average valuation Of lands, So per acre; average
valuation Of horses. EGO Del head; average vaiua-
tion OF lows, $15 per head: average valuation OF
three-year-old steers, SIS per head; average
valuation Of two-year-old steers. $l2 per head
average valuation OF sheep, 81 per head, On
| farm machinery about so per cent OF actual
value is assessed, and IN merchandise % pei
per cent OF actual value -
Beadle county, Central Dakota: Rate on ~
n mills. total, 25.4.
Hughes County, Central Dakota-Rate on 81
In mills: total, 20. In addition to the above,
special township school tax, ranging from nye
to twenty five mills, was assessed Tor 1884, tt
provide for the construction OF school houses
This tax Is levied ia each school townshiI
separately. and will be applied in the future to
the maintenance OF township schools. IL wNf %
less for 1855. II shOuld be stated IN expSana'
tion of the special assessment Tor TOWNSHIP
school taxes In Beadle, Hughes ana othel
counties In the newer portions OF DAKOTA, ina
az the cost OF building and maintaining town
ship schools Is borne by each township, the ta'