The independent., 1905-03-09

duclng capacity, We VIII now snow
the approximate worth Of a Larimer
county farm.
In Colorado property owner is
not satisfied with less than ten per
cent interest upon his investment.
Upon that basis, then, we shall cal
culate.
Suppose that 160 acre Larimer
county farm contained in one year
fifty acres of potatoes, fifteen acres of
beets, sixty acres of wheat and thirty
acres of alfalfa The average yield
Of potatoes is 120 sacks, or $4,000
pounds per acre; the market price ave-
RACES fifty cents per hundredweight, or
sixty-five dollars per acre. The ex-
pense of cultivation is twenty dollars
per acre, which leaves a profit of forty
five dollars per acre, or $2,250 for the
crop from fifty acres.
Average yield of beets, fifteen tons
per acre; market price, five dollars
per ton, or seventy-fve dollars per
acre; expense of cultivation, forty dol
lars per acre. This leaves profit of
thirty-fi dollars per acre, or $525 for
the crop of fifteen acres.
Average yield Of wheat, forty bush
|els, or 2,400 pounds per acre; average
market price, one dollars per hundred
weight, or twenty-four dollars per
acre; expense of cultivation, five dol
lars per acre; net profit, nineteen dol
lars per- acre. or $1,14U Tor the crop
from sixty acres.
Average yield of alfalfa, five tons
per acre; market price, four dollars per
ton or twenty dollars per acre; net
profit, seventeen dollars per acre, or
S510 for the crop of thirty acres (While
the cash profit on alfalfa is not as
large, that crop is invaluable as
fertilizer.)
By adding together these profits the
reader will find that such farm would
net above all expenses a grand total
Of $4,000. This sum divided by 100
gives the net profit per acre-$2812.
AS we have already shown, the net
profit yielded by a farm is nothing
more nor less than the interest upon
it's real value. Regarding this S2812
as interest received, and by multiply
1uSo IL NY lCIl, IL DCCO1uCS CNIuGuI ludl
an average Larimer county farm is
worth to its owner $2S1.2O per acre
These estimates are extremely con-
servative. In order to assure ourselves
upon this point We have made inquiries
of number of representative farmers
of this vicinity as to the net annual
profits per acre realized upon their
farms for the past two or three years.
Their estimates ranged from twenty to
forty dollars. No estimate was lower
than twenty dollars, hence none of
these farms are worth to their owners
less than 5000 per acre. There are many
farms in this vicinity that have given
yields far above our estimates. These
last two mentioned farms were there
fore worth to their owners last year
over $4,000.
For instance: Leonard Burch made
net profit on his 1870 acres, under culti-
vation, of $7,188. At $50 per acre profit,
this citation will show his farm to
have yielded an equivalent to the in
terest on $500 or the total earning ca
pacity was equal to the amount of In
terest that could be realized in one year
from $67,700.
Z Colorado soil is fresh, right out of
Natures original laboratory. 1t has
not been taxed nor exhausted, and it
contains incredible possibilities. You
farm sixty acres 'back east" Fifteen
acres in Colorado will produce as much
as your sixty elsewhere. The reason
for this has been determined Our soil
has been analyzed.
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productive Colorado land for sale AS
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