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breaking more sod.. I also ire 70 acres of breaking 
done, at $3 per acre: I did only about 20 acres my- 
self, making 90 acres for the season. Of this I put 
40 acres in oats, 25 in corn, 10 in flax, and 3 in pota- 
toes; total, 78 acres. This sod crop turned out as fol- 
lows: . Oats, 36 bushels per acre, corn 15; flax 8, and 
potatoes 90. At the prices then prevailing they 
would have brought $986. The cost of seed and 
labor was about $6.50 per acre, giving a net profit of 
over $5 per acre. This, for asod crop, I considered 
very good. 
The crop on my “old land,” as it is called—that is, 
the 90 acres broken the previous year—turned out 
as follows: Wheat, 21 bushels to the acre; oats, 74 
bushels; corn, 52 bushels. At the current prices 
these crops were worth $2,272. Add to this the value 
of my 78 acres of sod crops, as above stated, $986, 
and we have $3,258 as the value of the crops on the 
168 acres. ’ 
EXPENSES AND BALANCE. 
_ My expenses this summer for hired help and board 
for same, and for seed, were $794, besides the $210 
which I paid for breaking 70 acres, making a total of 
$1,004 for seed and hired help. 
_ [had bought a self-binding har datas: for which | 
paid $280; one additional horse, $125; two good cows, 
$75; one plow, $40; one seeder, $60; and one mower, 
$60, and other incidental expenses were $44, making 
a total of $684. 
