Show income ron cabull Ca pUll havo been to pay that capital m farming did was when amonoy brought front to ten per cent interest thit time has passed probably never to ro turu in alio older states money la most fortunately placed that with rood brings six per cent money is now easily borrowed on lire per cent and in largo films nt four per cent we foro that an in real castalo which aarm four per cent is well placed indent this interest it would require to earn 50 per month think lint a mechanic ways arc to the return for labor on a farm havo not properly studied the kiel wo spent the past month of anly in Mail isoo and cac nanu cohn lipa now york and in ex history of ciany carmi from their timo of settlement nt about tho croscut time found that alio original ori pinal had naro tamil fos and 1 surplus of from four p en dollars of at farms from aj to lio acres lalit bo understood that those arma were heavy limbered hilly lands having boon bcd nl j lo 10 sau per acro ren irin to be cleared nl an in aa per buforo could bo raised from ioni moro dilli cult task linn the opening up of araine farms yet all farms vloro hewed out of tho foreit and tho daml li liong stumps for many years abut with all hardships thero was ot out of these new farms an income to roar and from six to tan children lind at jhc thc close leivo n surplus in cash we had ft curiosity to how these farms stood now financially and economically omi cally with alio pre whether they acro still yielding such income as independence and thrift to this cn crU on in miny wo found the third in occupation and theo the o lull farms acro still yielding tho fruits ottic earth in such as to supply every want of tha family with n surplus every car graan illy producing a rasp the question airosu what is the mini mum investment in land in this old settled region adequate to a family iiii land principally worked by i its modo ratu lalair let ui take a small dairy farm of lefly acres here wo and ten cows of common blood but selected considerably baill iru dt icid during tho factory sC tison ol 01 milk pcr licad yielding an income of loach or 1 per season ja re froni sale of calro and from a small lop vard ts this trie small cami produces the jull line of a fam alj of firc ta adl three chil ilian under ten acar is oro or O fur labor ilein a net income froitland aud labor of tho ca here is A fair this would bo four per cent or part of its in the family and not accounted for could not bo properly alliss ann an avar 30 of per year is laid by as capital 1 0 found instances where tho capital d in farm stock and tools did not exceed 2500 although alio number of acres was from sixty to filc 1 ho land not behnso valuable as the lifty farm described yet alio bannera supported in quito stylo famales of calit or moro persons willi samo amount of capital alio mechanic in villao or city is in afar less independent position avon in alio best of limes alio mechanic would leavo to work anoro houra than the farmer to pel a living and in financial rin ancial crilla alio busin cs of tho mechanic stops atad ho is thus liable to bo without caplov but tho farmer may RO on with hiis line of products almost serenely iu diu erent n to tho condition of for whatever bo the condition of trade alio emst cat and hs products are in demand lu a tildo of Co ancial crisini cri sisi agricultural aruil aels furnish tho principal business of commerce as was tho case diio panic of 1871 nothing gives such confidence of future business is a bountiful crop farming is tho foundation of all other business ami tho capital of tho farmer is tho one kind of capital that always brings a fair return tho farmer has been ablo to make this fair return without making a careful stud 0 all branch ci of hia business so as to mako thomast of everything lie lias every possible to study more carefully all tho economics of his business ho has been proverbially too to improvements we arc glad to be ablo to however eliat farmers aro now making und thoy aro anxious to acaru from all sources at their command A asaf liec journal |