52 TOM’S EXPERIENCE 
‘Wheat not less than ninety cents, oats not less 
than thirty; most likely more for both.” 
He took some paper and after figuring a minute 
continued: ‘‘ Ninety acres wheat, 20 bushels per 
acre, 1800 bushels; ninety cents a bushel, $1,620. 
Ninety acres oats, 60 bushels per acre, 5400 bushels; 
thirty cents a bushel, $1,620. Exactly the same: 
And the probabilities of an increase of the avérage 
per acre, and an increase in the price, is about the 
same with each. 
“Yes, I think so. People talk of thirty, forty and _ 
even forty-five bushels of wheat to the acre, and — 
ninety and a hundred of oats, and I have no doubt 
such crops are sometimes raised, but they are excep- 
tional. I’m going to try next year for some of those 
exceptional’ crops to make up for the losses caused 
by that broken leg.” 
“And by ‘Tom’s Folly,” said he laughing. 
“Yes, for if it hadn’t been for ‘Tom's Folly’ I 
wouldn't have got that fall and broken my leg.” 
POTATOES. 
“Are you going to do any more breaking next 
spring?” he asked. 
‘‘T hadn’t thought much about that yet.” . 
“T think you ought. You have 140 acres yet un- 
broken, and I would advise you to break-at least 40 
or 50 of that next spring. And I’d plant it all in 
corn ard potatoes, I don’t see why potatoes should 
not be one of your most profitable crops here, especi- 
