180 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



Over and again have we endeavored to undeceive the public in 

 regard to this matter of cost, but in vain. Barely one agricultural 

 paper in the land has sought to aid us in this; all others, so far as 

 we are aware, have striven to increase the extent of the false esti- 

 mate. The Husbandman, however, published at Elmira, N. Y., has 

 not only treated us fairly, but generously. As this great paper is 

 an organ of the Grange, and the medium through which the famed 

 farmers of the Chemung Valley make themselves heard, its voice is 

 potential. 



Mr. James McCann, President, and Mr. George \V. Hoffman, ex- 

 President of the Farmers' Club of Elmira, together with Mr. "W. 

 A. Armstrong, the latter having no superior among agricultural 

 editors of our State, have reputations quite as great as those pos- 

 sessed by most of the eminent men of the agricultural press. 

 These have carefully examined " The New Agriculture," and 

 will vouch for the fact that we have never advised expend- 

 ing more than from thirty to fifty dollars an acre on farm lands ; 

 yet we propose to fit fifty acres at a cost not to exceed one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars per acre. Thus fitted, our lands for agricul- 

 tural and horticultural purposes combined, will doubtless return 

 good profits on an outlay of from three to five hundred dollars 

 per acre for the full fifty acres. 



My five acres will return when in full bearing, at least five hun- 

 dred dollars to an acre in home markets. The remaining forty- 

 five acres in farm crops will without doubt average fifty, possibly 

 an hundred dollars an acre net annually. I leave the reader to 

 make his own figures and decide whether it will pay. The con- 

 clusion thus far reached by myself, having tried " The New Agri- 

 culture," is, that no business pays as well as farming and garden- 

 ing, under systems of subsurface, subterranean or underground- 

 irrigation. 



