48 THE AFFAIRS OF THE FARM 



on. Farming is a business, and it must be based on 

 business principles. By collective buying, the price of 

 reapers has been reduced from $ 275 to $ 175; of threshers 

 from $ 300 to $200 ; of wagons from * 150 to $ 90. It has 

 been estimated by Professor Valgren that the Mutual 



THE COUNTRY SCHOOL. 

 A farm institution. 



Fire Insurance companies save the farmers of Minnesota 

 annually $750,000. 



The farmers of Denmark, however, for the last half 

 century have best shown the advantages of working to- 

 gether. In 1864, after a ruinous war, with depleted soil 

 fertility and with scant funds, the Danes started many 



States Department of Agriculture of the labor income of two hundred seventy- 

 four tenant farmers of Indiana is likewise very favorable to the work of the 

 schools. The Department discovered that the farmers with a common 

 school education made 8742 annually; with a high school training $1268 

 annually ; while the college trained tenant farmer was having a yearly income 

 of 8 1721. These facts indicate strongly that it pays prospective farmers to 

 prolong their schooling, even when one considers education as a financial 

 investment merely. 



