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ally on sod. [ understand 90 bushels an acre is’ not 
an unusual crop and that frequently 100 and more 
are raised. Suppose you break 50 acres next spring 
and plant half in corn and half in potatoes.” 
“That would be 2250. bushels of potatoes if they 
yielded only 90 bushels an acre. What in the world 
would I do with them all?” 
‘Well, you are now only three miles from a rail- 
road station. Ship them to Minneapolis or St. Paul. 
or even to Chicago, to some reliable commission mer- 
chant, to be sold for you. They cost but little for 
seed, next to nothing for planting, as you drop them 
in the furrows when you are breaking, and nothing 
for cultivation. I want you to try twenty-five acres 
as an experiment, and if it don’t turn out well you 
may call it‘ Sam’s Folly.’” 
“ All right, I’ll do it.” 
CATTLE. 
** And now, Tom, there’s one other thing I want 
to suggest: you havn’t stock enough. There are 
hundreds of acres of this rich prairie grass going to 
waste that might as well be growing into beef and 
pork for somebody’s profit.” 
‘* Yes, | know that,” I answered, “but I haven’t 
had the money to buy stock with.” 
“That brings up just the point I was driving at. I: 
want to go into partnership with you in the stock busi-. 
ness here. Not on a mammoth scale, as they do on 
the ranches farther west and south, but with just as 
