On an average he sold:
20 head of cattle " £ 8 = 160 0 0
10 horses " £10 = 100 0 0
Butter, 1,000 pounds " 1s. = 50 0 0
Hides and skin say 5 0 0
Horns " 1 0 0
Mealies, 60 bags " 12s. = 36 0 0
Forage, 5,000 bundles " 3d. = 62 10 0
Kaffir corn, 30 bags " 15s. = 22 10 0
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Total average yearly income £537 0 0
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It must not be supposed for one moment that here we have a rich man. I
am merely citing the case of a farmer who said to me: 'I'd rather be a
book-keeper at twenty-pounds a month.' He had no idea that his annual
income figured up to anything like £537. And yet that same man would
endeavour to make a good bargain in purchasing sixpennyworth of
hairpins because he considered himself a 'poor man.'

There are hundreds of farmers, more particularly in the Free State,
who are unable to realize the extent of their wealth in stock or the
acreage of their own farms. They brand every ox, sheep, and horse that
belongs to them, and it is only by such marks that they are enabled to
recognise their own property when they see it. I have known instances
where hundreds of horses belonging to one man have succumbed in a
single season on account of horse-sickness, and their owner regarded
the loss as a mere trifle, because he knew that such a catastrophe did
not materially affect his position.