Part 14

Hay is difficult to calculate; I do not think we have 400 tons. The price now is very low; 5 dollars a ton, and it would cost us three dollars to get it into Winnipeg.

Potatoes are uncertain. They are worth one dollar a ton now, and if we can manage to keep them during the winter they will be worth a good deal more; but they are difficult to keep, although we have a good root-house; If the frost happens to get to them they will all spoil; and it is difficult to keep the frost out, going as it does twelve feet into the ground.

The Fence is quite worth the money; so you see that putting most things at a low price, one has a certain profit, though not in hard cash; and it is satisfactory to find that one hasn't been working for two seasons for nothing. No one expects a farm to pay in this country during the first two years.

Original Value. Dollars. Present Value Dollars Land, 480 acres 4,110 worth 30 dollars an acre 14,400 Building 2 houses and 2 stables 4,814 4,814 Horses--2l horses 4,326 3,000 1 stallion Cattle--84 cows 2,668 80 cows and 46 calves 3,700 Carriages 229 229 Harness 407 300 Implements 1,810 800 Pigs 125 Pigs and 29 young 350 Poultry 20 33 chickens 40 Furniture 495 400 Profit and Losses 10,681 Oats 2,500 bushels at 50 cents 1,250 Hay 400 tons at 5 dollars 2,000 Potatoes 1,000 bushels at 1 dollar 1,000 Flax 100 Wire Fence 500 _____ _____ 29,180 32,888 N.B.--The profit and loss comprises the wages to labourers and cost of living of both masters and men.

This estimate is given after two years' farming.