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“ But would this pay?” 
“Let us see. Potatoes on sod yield from 70 to 100 
bushels per acre. If you realized only 70 bushels 
the crop on fifteen acres would be 1,050 bushels. 
You could ship these to Minneapolis or St. Paul and 
realize at least 25.cents a bushel for them, probably 
more. But at 25 cents you would receive $262.50. 
Allow $100 for expenses of gathering and marketing, 
and you will have $162 left. If your corn produces 
only 20 bushels per acre, and it would probably do 
considerably better than that, you would have 300 
bushels worth $90 or more. Deduct $20 for expense 
of gathering and hauling to market, and you have 
$70 profit. This added to the profit on the potatoes 
makes $232. Deduct from this $90 that you had 
paid for breaking, and you have still a net profit of 
$142, or nearly $5 an acre on your 30 acres.” 
Mrs. Sanford listened very closely to this statement 
and then said: ‘I am greatly obligel to you, Mr. 
Taylor, for going so fully into detail about this mat- 
ter. It eertainly looks promising, but do you think 
such a result could really be expected, under the 
management of a woman with very little knowledge 
of farming?” 
‘‘T have known much better results actually real- 
ized, and I have been careful in this statement not 
to make it too flattering. There are, besides, several 
things your boy could do to add materially to the 
income.” 
‘And what are they, please?” 
