Saskatchewan Gen Web Project - SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE by JOHN HAWKES Vol 1I 1924


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SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

THE LISTER KAYE FARMS. (con't)

wheat. He figured that in a few years he would be able to go back east with a fortune, and did not sell his furniture but put it in storage. He paid storage on it for four years in Montreal. It took four years to show him that wheat growing was not an exact science but a matter of Jupiter Pluvius and old Sol; of markets and freight rates, fluctuations, frost, drouth [sic], hail and sometimes floods; of bumper crops and failures; of the elements and markets, of poor selling and good selling and generally speaking of ups and downs he was powerless to control. Although he is hoW living in comfort in the midst of his many broad acres he has never realised that dream of fortune under which he was to retire in a few years to Montreal, take his furniture out of storage and live in modest splendor and dignified leisure for the rest of his days. The way he figured was this. Remember that money then had really about double the value it has today. Two thousand acres of wheat, 25 bushels an acre-50,000 bushels. Fifty thousand bushels at 90c a bushel, $45,000. We have seen that Bell of the Bell Farm figured the cost of production at $5 an acre. Two thousand acres at $5 an acre, $10,000. Consequently $10,000 from $45,000, net profit $35,000. Profits on four years cropping at a profit of $35,000 per crop-$140,000. Don't you see what a glorious prospectus could be issued without any intention to defraud on this kind of figuring" But it was the kind of figuring that started large and small companies in the early days and on which men with money came to this country to farm. Bibliography follows:



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THE STORY
OF
SASKATCHEWAN
AND ITS PEOPLE



By JOHN HAWKES
Legislative Librarian



Volume II
Illustrated



CHICAGO - REGINA
THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1924




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