The representative., 1899-07-27

plOW .................. $500
Take acres, seed 3h bushels,
DIT QUO LID
| Take acres seeding and drag
glng, R DAY ................. 1.5O
Take acres, cutting and shock
ing ...... "a. .a............. 800
Take 2 acresg stacking and
Iii iesHlhe ...r.. +.......... 4.OO
Take 2 acres, marketing, II day. 1.5O
Take 2 acres, .eNtraahelp .. LOO
. sc
Expense O, 2 acres ........ $15.75
expense OF l acre ea@............. $7.87
Expense of l acre, interest and
SoA "eeouAI & LUU
IOtal .......... .......... $9S7
This is based on the supposition that
one man and team would handle 100
acres of titled land, balance to be left
for yards, pasture, etc.
ANOTHER PLAN.
Man and team will work on 100
acres months or 22O days, at
20 SOOU,UU
3 months work of man. chores.
etc., at $Z5 .................. $500
months feed of team while
idle, at SO ................ 5000
IL months food for other stock
is Offset by butter, milk, eggs
and meat exchanged.
IL months work Of wife and
cHlluren $50. A................ 24O.OC
IL months expenses family, gro
ceries, clothing ... .... 10000
II months expenses for machin-
cry for farm, new in years.. 10000
II months losses on dying stock,
crippled horses ..... 5000
IL months contingencies . 5000
t.e $1,355OO
For 100 acres would average $S. 40 per
acre, with 81 extra Tor interest, taxes,
etc., on investment, brings it up to
$1O.4O per acre.
Land worth more per acre would have
to be figured out in the same manner
and would naturally be more. Land
less than $40 would figure less on the
investment.
Can a man and his team work 100
acres of titled land?
COST OF A BUsHEL OF WHEAT.
n Price.
First year, crop 80 bus. s............. 55c
Second year, crop 81 bus. .......... SIC
Third year, crop IL BUS. .'.......... 6oc
Fourth year. crop Is bus. .......... SOC
Fifth year, cropn1S bus. s............. 44c
Sixth year, crop 10 bus. us............ sic
Seventh year, crop 21 bus. ........ sic
Eighth year, crop "a bus. .......... 46c
Ninth year, crop IL bus. ........... SOC
Tenth year, CROP bus. ............. 6Oc
Total for 10 years, per bu...... 53.1
Average for 10 years ......... .1o.2 bus.
Take 1872 bushels average for 10 years,
on 100 acres, and we have 1920 bushels
at an average price of SO 1-1Oc per bush
ell, or $966.42 average income per year.
for ~ years.
Average outlay per year. ..... 81 1856. 90
Net loss per year .............. 1858
Total loss in 10 years, $3,885.8O, or l
have worked for 10 years and lost my
farm valued at $4,000.
1t will be seen that have put in $40
per month for the work of the wife and
children on the farm, but it should not
go in, as it is supposed that all that kind
of work should be contributed without
compensation. Thus it would show that
after 10 years toll of family, they have
saved $2,240, which, at the same rate of
reckoning, it will take me 10 years more
hard work to lose this equity, which my
family saved me from losing in the first
10 years. 1t will now take another 10
years, with the same general conditions
if age, health and fertility of soil keeps
up, to lose what is still left.
This is an injustice, as the work of
the wife and family should receive same
income for theif labor. Take it in the
city. where the boys and girls work in
factories, they receive So to $12 per
per week, or an income of $3.50 to $500
per year. 1t must also be taken into
consideration that the toll of the farm
is the most exacting and laborious kind
of work, and never finished.
1t is a we'll known fact that farming
would be disastrous IL ALL the labor
of running a farm was to be paid for.
No farm could be made productive
enough to stand 1t,
Thus have tried, in an offhand way.
to give some general outline OF estimat-