Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 14 | Swallowing the Farm

SWALLOWING THE FARM My homeless man with the chromatic chro-matic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar In a 10-cent glass of gin let me give ou a fact to wash down with it. You may say you have longed for years for the free, independent life of tho farmer, but have never been able to get money enough together to buy a farm. Rut that is Just w litre you are mistaken. For some years you have been drinking a good improved im-proved farm at the rate of 100 square feet a gulp. If yu doubt this statement, state-ment, figure it out yourself. An acre of land contains 43,550 square feet Estimating, for convenience, the land at $43.ot an acre, you will see that it brings the land to just 1 mill per square foot. Now pour down the Aery close and imagine you arc swallowing a strawberry patch. Call In five of your friends and have them help you fulp down that 500-foot garden. Go cn a prolonged spree ome day and Eve how long it requires to swallow enough pasture land to feed a cow. Put down that glass of gin; there is dirt In it 100 feet of good, rleh dirt, worth $13.56 per acre. Robert J. Bur-dtdte.