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spring of 1882. I started that spring with only
$300'00 cash, out of which I had to buy a yoke of
oxen for $250'00 cash, and I had to get a plough,
harrow and waggon on credit.
After twenty years’ farming I have now one and a
balf sections of land (960 acres), all of which is under
cultivation except some acres around a creek. I do
not put all this in grain, each year reserving portions
which have been seeded in brome grass and sometimes
oats for pasture.
I have a large brick dwelling two storeys high, as
good as you will see in Ontario; also a frame barn for
32 head of horses; and a granary which holds 12,000
bushels of grain. I have 40 head of cattle, and am
building a barn to hold 60. I have a hog pen and 100
pigs. We have 100 hens and 12 geese.
Land immediately adjoining mine was sold this
summer for $2500 per acre without any buildings,
and as my buildings are valuable I would not take
less than $30°00 an acre for my place, if I had to sell,
which I have no wish to do. So valuing the
Land at ... - soa Po «. $28,800
40 cattle, at $3500 each ee we 1,400
20 horses, at $150%00 ,, oe ww. 3,000
100 pigs, at $800 ,, ve. - 8oo
A new separator and engine, 20 H.P.... 3,000
Other implements, say ... wee w- 2.000

$39,000
Besides this, I have in the bank $6,000-00. Making
in all $45,000,
So, out of my investment of $300'00 and my own
labour alone at first and lately superintending my
men, I have made in twenty years $45,000, and I have
not been stingy either, for 1 have lived well all the
time. Besides these $45,000, I had to sell out of last
year's crop:

18,000 bushels of wheat, at 60 cents... $10,800
2,000 bushels oats, at 30 cents ot 6oo
$11,400