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sold nearly eighteen hundred dozen eggs during 

 this quarter, for $553. The butter account 

 showed nearly twenty-eight hundred pounds 

 sold, which brought 1894, and the sale of eleven 

 calves brought $130. These sales closed the 

 credit side of our ledger for the year. 



Apples 1337.00 



Calves 130.00 



Cockerels 215.00 



1785 doz. eggs 553.00 



2790 Ib. butter 894.00 



283 hogs 2702.00 



Total $4831.00 



In making up the expense account of that 

 year and the previous one, I found that I should 

 be able in future to say with a good deal of 

 exactness what the gross amount would be, 

 without much figuring. The interest account 

 would steadily decrease, I hoped, while the wage 

 account would increase as steadily until it ap- 

 proached $5500 ; that year it was $4662. Each 

 man who had been on the farm more than six 

 months received $18 more that year than he did 

 the year before, and this increase would continue 

 until the maximum wage of $40 a month was 

 reached ; but while some would stay long enough 

 to earn the maximum, others would drop out, 

 and new men would begin work at $20 a month. 

 I felt safe, therefore, in fixing $5500 as the maxi- 

 mum wage limit of any year. Time has proven 

 the correctness of this estimate, for $5372 is the 



