"
"But what if Anderson sets fire to your piggery, or lightning strikes
your granary,--how about the expense account then?"
"What do you suppose fire insurance policies are for? To paper the wall?
No, madam, they are to pay for new buildings if the old ones burn up. I
charge the farm over $200 a year for this security, and it's a binding
contract."
"Well, I'll try and forget the $6000 if you'll get to the figures at
once."
"All right. First, let me go over the statement for the last quarter of
the year. The sales were: apples, from 150 old trees at $3 per tree,
$450; 10 calves, $115; 360 hens and 500 cockerels, $430; 5 cows (the
common ones, to Jackson) at $35 each, $175; eggs, $827; butter, $1311;
and 281 hogs, rushed to market in December when only about eight months
old and sold for $3.70 per hundred to help swell this account, $2649;
making a total for the fourth quarter of $5957.
"The items of expense for the year were:--
"Interest on investment $5,132.00
New hog-house 4,220.00
10,000 bu.
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