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Show WEALTH OF WESTERN FARMS. Bountiful Crops the Rule for Many Successive Years. The big wheat farms of tho Dako-tas Dako-tas aro being broken up Into smaller holdings, and tho conditions there nro becoming llko those of states farther south, where the average slzo of a farm Is 250 acres. Out of It all the farmer Is growing Independent. Five great crop years have Just been ondei on the plains. Deginnlng with tho crop of 1SD" the wheat has been good every yes" Not always has It been a record-breaker in every community, but generally it has returned a great harvest. The farmer estimates the cost of his crop at $7.50 an acre; if ho gets thirty bushols an aero and sells it for 50 cents he has a profit of 7.50 an acre. On 100 acres it Is $760; on 1,000 pcres, $7,500 and there are many hundred farmers with tbo lattor acreage acre-age What have thoy dono? A. Miner came to York county, Nebraska, to years ago with Just enough to buy eighty acres of land. Ho lived In a sod house, and lost everything In tho bant times of the early nineties. Now ho owns 720 acres of land, lives In a ten room house and has a bank account. ac-count. A man named Harnady rented a farm in Seward county, that state, seven years ago; now ho owns tho farm nnd has $3,000 In bank. J. S. Holllnger came io central Kansas poor; he raised whoa chiefly; he died a few months ago worth with the ac-rumulatlons ac-rumulatlons of his fnmVy of boys. i 5100,000. The Miller brothers ren'ed land of tho Poncp. Indians, in Okla noma, five yeara ago, and put In waea: ' ord raised stock. They are tnakiii;; 5,0(0 annually clear profit. Hun 1 dreds of Itistancos might bo mentioned , nt funis that have been paid out ol tho crops of one or two years. Leslie's Les-lie's Weekly. |