334 FARMING BY INCHES; 



mind that our farm supported us both and paid the above 

 profit. Now this is not the whole story ; there are two more 

 items to be entered. You must not think we sold our 

 entire crop, and denied ourselves everything. We were not 

 so foolish as that, I can assure you ; we supplied our own 

 table with the best our farm produced, and fairly revelled in 

 fresh vegetables. To the amount of our sales must be 

 added the value of the things used on our table. Then I 

 sold our old horse and wagon for forty dollars, as we have 

 no use for them in the winter. The account then stands 

 somewhat in this wise : 



Received for crops 

 Vegetables used in house 

 Sale of team 



$1,421 00 

 Expenses .... 1,168 00 



$253 00 



" Our support and two hundred and fifty three dollars, 

 a little more than ten per cent, on the capital used. Our 

 assets are as follows : Real estate, twelve hundred dol- 

 lars ; furniture and etc., three hundred dollars ; tools, ten 

 dollars ; cash in Savings Bank, fourteen hundred dollars. 

 Total, two thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. Debts 



