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THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR 391 
that a factory farm can be run like a grazing or 
a grain farm. One of its objects is to furnish 
well-paid employment to a lot of people. We've 
had nine men and two lads all the year, and 
three extra men for seven months, three women 
on the farm and five in the house, — twenty-two 
people to whom we’ve paid wages this year. 
Doesn’t that count for anything? How many 
did we keep in the city?” 
«“ Four, — three women and a man.” 
«Then we give employment to eighteen more 
people at equally good wages and in quite as 
wholesome surroundings. Do you realize, Polly, 
that the maids in the house get $1300 out of the 
$5300, one quarter of the whole? Possibly 
there is a suspicion of extravagance on the home 
forty.” 
“Not a bit of it! You know that you proved 
to me that it cost us $5200 a year for board and 
shelter in the city, and you only credit the farm 
with $4000. That other $1200 would more than 
pay the extra wages. I really don’t think it 
costs as much to live here as it did on B—— 
Street, and any one can see the difference.” 
“You are right. If we call our plant an even 
$100,000, which at five per cent would mean 
$5000 a year, — where can you get house, lawns, 
woods, gardens, horses, dogs, servants, liberty, 
birds, and sun-dials on a wide and liberal scale 
for $5000 a year, except on a farm like this? 
You can’t buy furs, diamonds, and yachts with 
