| He has laid out, for a house | $38 75 |
| For Fuel | 30 00 |
| " Furniture | 43 00 |
| " Cattle and farming implements | 198 00 |
| Cost of living, including price of cow | 100 00 |
| Total | $409 75 |
This sum he will absolutely require to have when he arrives on the land. To this, in his calculations, he must add his expenses coming here.
Railroad fares from different points will be given in another place.
We have not here made any calculations in regard to the purchase of his land, in the first place because the lands are different prices in different colonies, and secondly because most of our settlers with small means, buy their farms on time, getting very easy terms of payments. All information in this respect will be found in its proper place, when we come to speak of our colonies. It must be born in mind (and it may be as well said here as elsewhere) that the Catholic Bureau owns no lands; we but control them and hold them at their original prices for our immigrants. We have also secured advantages in prices and terms of payment which immigrants cannot get outside of our colonies.
Now having no crop the first year, he works out in the harvest and earns $60.00.
This he requires now, and more when he puts in his first crop, but, as he will get time for some, perhaps all, of the following charges, we will not charge them to his original capital.
SECOND SPRING'S WORK AND EXPENSES.
| 1 drag to put in the crop, shaking the seed by hand | $12 00 |
| Seed wheat for 50 acres. 1 bushel and 2 pecks to the acre | 75 00 |
| Hires his grain cut and bound | 75 00 |
| Shocking, stacking, etc., done by exchanging work with neighbors. | |
| Machine threshing at 5 cents a bushel | 50 00 |
| Extra labor done by exchanging work. | |
| $212 00 |
We have now come down to the harvest and the second year on the land