"Some of the heifers will be coming in the last of this month or the first of next. Don't you want to get rid of those five scrub cows?"
"Better wait six weeks, and then you may sell them. Do you know where you can place them?"
"Jackson was looking at them a few days ago, and said he would give $35 apiece for them; but they are worth more."
"Not for us, Thompson, and not for him, either, if he saw things just right. They're good for scrubs; but they don't pay well enough for us, and if he wants them he can have them at that price about the middle of October."
The credit account for the second quarter of 1898 stood:—
| 23 calves | $270.00 |
| Eggs | 637.00 |
| Butter | 1314.00 |
| ---------- | |
| Total | $2221.00 |
CHAPTER LXIV
COMFORT ME WITH APPLES
September added a new item to our list of articles sold; small, indeed, but the beginning of the fourth and last product of our factory farm,—fruit from our newly planted orchards. The three hundred plum trees in the chicken runs gave a moderate supply for the colony, and the dwarf-pear trees yielded a small crop; but these were hardly included in our scheme. I expected to be able, by and by, to sell $200 or $300 worth of plums; but the chief income from fruit would come from the fifty acres of young apple orchards.