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year for want of means to buy the raw material nec-- 
essary to use in running the establishment. It pays 
handsomely when it is running, but as it stands idle 
so long, the interest on the unproductive capital eats- 
up all the profits earned during the time it is run. 
Now a comparatively small amount of additional 
capital would keep the wheels in motion the year 
round, and so the establishment would earn large. 
dividends. Thus the farmer who has 160 acres of 
land, and only thirty or forty acres under cultivation, 
has about three-fourths of his capital lying idle and 
unproductive. It will pay him to borrow the com- 
paratively small amount of money necessary to at. 
once make the balance productive. 
AN ILLUSTRATION. 
We will suppose that he has 190 acres of wild land 
which he lacks the money to bring under cultivation, 
except year by year, as he can do it by his own labor. 
The expense per acre of raising a crop of wheat on 
this, would be as follows: 
Breaking, er acre........ 95 ay ein a2 o's sme $3.00 
Back-setting, per acre....-.........ee00 1.50 
Dragging before seeding, per acre........ 40) 
Seed, 14 bushels per acre .......-..+.... 1.50 
Bests, Pek BENE <i ses bad ds Fie a asi 50 
Dragging after seeding, per acre .-...... 40 
arvestitir, per acre. «+ vasa cova eee seas 2.30 
Threshing, per acre........0seceeoeeees 1.40 
Hauling to market, PER AChe. Oo Ws ree ae 50 

GOR: (ho LEER SRE stone ees aint Bee aes $11 50. 
