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and he sold the wheat at ninety-five cents and the 
oats at thirty, these crops would realize $1, 500, 
your third ($500) being twenty per cent. on your in- | 
vestment, besides the increase in the value of TOU. 
Jand.” 
He listened attentively to my statement, and then 
said: — 
‘““T do not see any flaw in your calculations, a it 
seems to me you've laid out a good deal of work for 
that tenant.” 
“On the contrary, ’ve given him comparatively 
an easy time of it. If he stays in Illinois and works 
as a tenant there, he will have to do more work every 
year than I have laid out for him here.” | 
“But a good tenant,” he. said, ‘would want to 
know, before coming here, what the advantage to 
him would be. He would say he might as well be a 
tenant in []linois as in Dakota.” 
THE TENANT'S SIDE. - 
“The difference to him would be in the lower 
price of land here, and his much better chance of 
getting a farm of his own. My calculation gives 
him $405 cash at the end of his first season’s work, 
At the end of the second season, from the proceeds 
of his wheat and oats and sod crops, after paying ex- 
penses of harvesting and threshing, he would prob- 
ably have a thousand dollars, but an only eight hun- 
dred, and he would still be twelve hundred dollars 
ahead. Now do you know of any tenants and their 
