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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



SYNOPSIS OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES OF 90 ACRES OF LAND 

 BELONGING TO JOHN G. M. BARNES, KAYSVILLE, UTAH. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am such a small farmer, after listening to 

 the size of the farms that it is thought people must have in order to make 

 it pay, that I certainly feel a great delicacy in presenting my experience as 

 a practical farmer. Dr. Widtsoe, however, insisted that it be presented 

 before this convention, as he states he thinks this is the only record cov- 

 ering a peritrd of twenty years. While I know that figures and statistics 

 are necessarily very dry, if this will be of any benefit to you who are 

 about to embark in dry land farming you are entitled to the benefit of 

 my labor. 



As our worthy chairman stated, the record will be given minutely. I 

 have, in keeping my record, tried to make my farm pay for itself, and I 

 have therefore charged everything that I could think of against the farm, 

 with the possible exception of the taxes, and through inadvertence I 

 omitted to charge the taxes. But everything else I can think of I have 

 charged against the farm. In buying the land I was, as a good many of 

 us at the present time are, a little short of money and had to borrow the 

 money to buy the farm, and I have charged the interest that I paid until 

 the land had paid for itself. So in my remarks you will notice occasionally 



I say, paid so much for interest. 



March, 1887.— Purchased farm at $20 per acre ....... .$1,800.00 



May. — Plowing 89 acres at $1.50 per acre 133.50 



93 bushels wheat at 65c... ^ 60.45 



18 pounds vitriol and dressing wheat 6.70 



Sept. 15.— Drilling 89 acres at 50c 44.50 



Cost for plowing, drilling and seeding, $2.75 per 

 acre. 



Owing to dry fall and winter, complete failure. 



May, 1888.— Plowing 89 1-2 acres at $1.50 134.25 



96 bushels wheat at 80c 76.80 



18 pounds vitriol and dressing wheat 4.30 



Pulling sun flowers 12.75 



Sept. — Drilling 89 acres at 45c and use of drill 42.50 



Nov. — Re-seeding 20 acres that were thin 20.00 



Cost of plowing, drilling and seeding, $3.20 per 

 acre. 



July, 1889.— Heading 84 acres at $1.25 105.00 



Hay, $7.20; hauling water, $10.00 17.20 



Threshing 56.00 



Hauling grain to warehouse 64.92 



Boarding threshers 25.00 



Plowing fire guards around stacks 3.00 



July, 1889.— Paid interest 323.00 



