MY FARM OF EDGEWOOD 



Brought forward, $2,370 00 



By Sales eggs and poultry, .... 25 00 



" do. sundries, 75 00 



$2,470 00 

 " Balance (loss), 1,052 00 



$3,522 00 



First years of any adventure do not offer a 

 very appetizing show — least of all the adven- 

 ture of restoring a neglected farm. 



If this record does not prove entertaining to 

 the reader, I can frankly say that he has my 

 heartiest sympathies. The great enormity lies 

 in the labor account — always the enormity in 

 any reckoning of American farming, as com- 

 pared with British or Continental. It must 

 be remembered, however, that a large propor- 

 tion of the sum named, went to the execution 

 of permanent improvements, and that two- 

 thirds of it would have been amply sufficient 

 for the exigencies of the farm-work proper. 



Let us slip on now to the 



THIRD YEAR. 



Dr. 



To Valuation of stock, $1,500 00 



" Interest on do., 90 00 



Carried forward, $1,590 00 

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