68 PIM’S EXPERIENCE: 
small house and stable, three horses for a breaking 
team, a cow, feed for the stock, a good plow, and 
something for their own support until the breaking 
season is over. | 
‘Your total investment will be about $2,500. 
‘That will be plenty, and less might do—a good deal 
Jess does a great many people, and they manage to 
pull through. But we will deal liberally with this 
couple of yours. Suppose they arrive here in the 
spring, in good time to build their house and stable, 
and be ready for the breaking season, which is not 
Jess than fifty days long. In that time he ought to 
break at least eighty acres for himself, plant a lot of 
it in potatoes, flax, oats and corn, and do enough 
breaking for others to earn $60, or more, to pay liv- 
ing expenses. 
_ “ For your investment of $2,500 you ought to have, 
say ten per cent. interest the first year, and you 
should let the tenant pay that in breaking sod at the 
regular rate, and give him the benefit of such sod 
crops as he could raise. When you consider the in- 
¢reased value of your land, you will find that would 
bea very goodinvestment. Of all crops except those 
raised on sod you would have one-third. The tenant 
~ ought to plant at least ten acres of potatoes, and 
just as much of the balance of his breaking as _pos- 
sible in flax and oats, with enough corn to supply his 
stock. If he could get the money to pay for it, he 
would better hire enough help to put every acre of 
his breaking in crops. He should also put up enough 
