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farm help from sixteen to twenty dollars per month. Well, 

 reckoning these men at about eighty cents, and their board at 

 about fifty cents, I get my hay at about one dollar per ton. 

 Owing to the newness and richness of the soil, we can raise 

 beef cattle and sheep, I think, cheaper than they can be raised 

 in any other part of the State. 



Prof. Fareington. When we come to the financial part of 

 farming, and begin to take figures, we reduce agriculture to a 

 science. The gentleman has said that with six men he could 

 cut sixty tons of hay in six days. I wish to inquire what day 

 he finished mowing ? 



Mr. Haytord. Friday. 



QuES. You cut your hay mostly with machine? 



Ans. Yes, sir, mostly. 



QuES. And you used how many teams? 



Ans. Two teams — that is, in hauling. 



QuES. And you reckoned them in? you reckoned board 

 and the use of the teams ? 



Ans. No, sir ; nothing for the use of the teams, only board 

 and labor. 



Mr. Farrington. I don't know as I care to ask any more 

 questions, but I think that farmers make a great many state- 

 ments that are made where they do not make full account of 

 all expense. Mr. Hayford has not reckoned the wear and 

 tear of machinery, carts, racks, and the almost numberless 

 conveniences which he used, and upon which there must 

 yearly be an expense to be taken into account. I am utterly 

 astonished. It does seem to me, if everything was fully con- 

 sidered, it would put the cost higher. I have figures of my 

 last year's haying with a crew of four men, two teamsters, 

 one man to care for the stock, and one for farm work. We 

 began, I think, the fifth day of Julj^ and in eleven days we 

 got one hundred tons of hay, and it was mostly done with 

 student labor, and it cost to get that hay into the barn, three 

 dollars and sixty cents per ton ; and we thought we were 

 doing a pretty good thing at that. It seems to me there must 

 be some queer process, for I know I can work myself, and I 



