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hay for his stock during the winter. For some of 
the assistance he would need in doing this, he could 
exchange work with his neighbors, and during har- 
-vest, with the help of his team, he ought to earn 
$75. His sod crops, aside from the potatoes, would 
furnish abundant feed for his stock, and surplus 
enough to pay for all the supplies needed for the: 
family, and his ten acres of potatoes would yield 900 
bushels, worth at 30 cents a bushel, $270. His earn- 
ings for the season then would be: 
From breaking.......00+eeeceeeceeeserrcecree $ 60 00 
From work of self and team in harvest.........- 75 00 
From 900 bushels of potatoes.......++e+-e sees 270.00: 
ME Gas isan sales Fie ewok ostae $405.00 
‘Tn this calculation you will notice that I leave 
out all the sod crops except the potatoes, as I allow 
them to go entirely to the family support and the 
keeping of the stock. And they will do that well. 
In the fall he does his backsetting and gets his land 
in good condition for next spring’s crops, and during 
the winter he can (and will if he is a sensible fellow) 
fix up agreat many things to add to the comfort and 
convenience of his home. In thespring he will have 
eighty acres in first-rate condition for crops, which 
he can put in wheat and oats—say sixty of wheat 
and twenty of oats. Then he will do forty or fifty 
acres more breaking, and on the sod raise another - 
crop of potatoes, flax, oats and corn. If his wheat 
produced twenty bushels per acre and-his oats. sixty, 
