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thirty-five cents. Some thought wheat would go up 
to a dollar or more, but the chances seemed about as 
- good that it would drop to ninety cents. It did go 
to ninety-eight cents a week or two after I had sold 
mine, but I had got a good paying price and did not 
grieve over the loss of the three cents more a bushel 
that I might have received by waiting a little longer. 
{ need not dwell on the details of threshing and — 
marketing the crops. . Every farmer reader under- 
stands that it is hard work—the threshing especially. 
We had about the regular number of annoying de- 
lays caused by breakages and derangements of 
machinery. I don’t suppose that any machine has 
ever been invented yet, or ever will be, that won't 
break and get out of order. Even the old-fashioned 
flail and grain-cradle would. The old-style fanning 
mill that was run by hand came about the nearest 
to being an exception to this rule. When I was a 
boy and had to, turn it from morning till night I 
used often to wish that it would break down and 
give mea rest, but it never did. 
_ My wheat turned out an average of twenty-eight 
bushels per acre, a total yield of 2,520 bushels; my 
oats a fraction over seventy-one bushels per acre, a 
total of 6,390 bushels. ~ 
What about the twenty-five acres each of sod 
corn and potatoes? 
I cut up my corn to have the fodder for my stock 
during the winter. I would not do that again, for 
while abundance of hay can be made here at a cost 
