Hodson maintained that many farmers paid as much hard cash for the education of their children, and for the necessary social surroundings incident to that education, as men used to pay for the entire sustenance of their households.

Then there was the borrowed capital, and the short loans from the banker; the interest on these two made two more rents.
Farmers paid rent to the railroad for the transit of their goods.

The auctioneer, whether he sold cattle and sheep, or whether he had a depot for horses, was a new man whose profits were derived from the farmers.
There were few or no auctioneers or horse depositories when he began business; now the auctioneer was everywhere, and every country town of any consequence had its establishment for the reception and sale of horses.
Farmers sunk enough capital in steam-ploughs and machinery to stock a small farm on the old system, and the interest on this sunk capital represented another rent.

It was the same with the artificial manure merchant and with the seedsman.

Farmers used to grow their own seed, or, at most, bought from the corn dealers or a neighbour if by chance they were out.