WHAT IT WILL COST HIM TO LIVE.

For a family of four, 30 bushels of wheat, ground into flour,

at $1, a bushel $30 00

Groceries 15 00

1 cow for milk 25 00

Fuel 30 00

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Total $100 00

He has besides, vegetables, and corn sufficient, that he raised on his

breaking, and two hogs that he raised and fattened on the corn, and for

which we should have charged him two or three dollars. In the fall, his

hogs weigh 200 lbs. each, and he can sell them or eat them; we recommend

the latter course.

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