A six roomed house would cost about 2,000 dollars.
A four-roomed house would cost about 1,200 dollars.
Live poultry cost about 6 dollars per dozen.
Cows, 25 to 50 dollars each. Horses, 75 to 150 dollars each. Sheep, 3 to 4 dollars each.
Cultivators cost from 7 to 15 dollars each. Ploughs and harrows about the same price. A riding cultivator, 45 to 50 dollars. Pruning shears, 3 dollars.
Day labour costs 1 dollar per day and board; but, in harvest time, 1-1/2 dollar per day and board.
Carpenters, 2-1/2 dollars per day, sometimes with and sometimes without board.
Fencing costs 500 dollars (i.e., £100) a mile. To fence a 20-acre lot would cost 350 dollars (i.e., £70); but if the eight forming the quarter section joined together, it would cost each about 130 dollars (i.e., £26). The fence would be a 6-inch board at bottom, then 30 inches of wire netting to keep out rabbits, then another 6-inch board and a barbed wire at top.
Firewood costs 6 to 7 dollars a cord of hard wood, or 5 to 6 dollars of willow wood; a cord of wood is 4-ft. by 4-ft. by 8-ft.