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that a factory farm can be run like a grazing or 

 a grain farm. One of its objects is to furnish 

 well-paid employment to a lot of people, WeVe 

 had nine men and two lads all the year, and 

 three extra men for seven months, three women 

 on the farm and fire in the house, twenty-two 

 people to whom we've paid wages this year. 

 Doesn't that count for anything? How many 

 did we keep in the city ? " 



>ur, three women and a roan." 

 Then we give employment to eighteen more 

 people at equally good wages and in quite as 

 wholesome surroundings. Do you realize, Polly, 

 that the maids in the house get $1300 out of the 

 $5300, one quarter of the whole? Possibly 

 there is a suspicion of extravagance on the home 

 forty.* 



"Not a bit of i : You know that you proved 

 to me that it cost us $5200 a year for board and 

 shelter in the city, and you only credit the form 

 with $4000. That other 1200 would more than 

 pay the extra wages. I really don't think it 



costs as much to live here as it did on B 



- ;u and any one can see the difference." 



You are right. If we call our plant an even 

 $100,000, which at five per cent would mean 

 $5000 a year, where can you get house, lawns, 

 woods, gardens, horses, dogs, servants, lib 

 birds, and sun-dials on a wide and liberal scale 

 for $5000 a year, except on a farm like this? 

 You can't buy furs, diamonds, and yachts with 



