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well constructed, that you should have ample storage 

 room, so that you can wait for high prices, something which 

 will redound to your honor, your profit, and your self- 

 respect." 1 



Cato is also quoted as advising to buy what others have 

 built and thus " enjoy the fruits of another's folly." This 

 a^ain is good advice to-day. 



244. Capital in buildings. Very little can be said 

 about the proportion of the capital to be invested in 

 buildings, because the prices of land and lumber change 

 so frequently. 



It is said that the city worker ought not to spend over 

 20 per cent of his salary in rent. Ordinarily not over 10 

 to 20 per cent of the capital should be invested in the 

 farmhouse. 



Barns for stock should rarely cost over $50 for each 1000- 

 pound animal housed. In the South, this cost should be 



FIG. 101. An expensive brick henhouse that the hens can never pay 

 for. It would take 5 dozen eggs per hen per year to pay her house rent. 



much less. This cost includes materials and all labor. 

 Money invested in a barn would not be looked upon as a 



1 Cato's Farm Manag?m.:nt, translated by a "Virginia Farmer." 



