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Grain. 



No. of 

 acres. 



Wheat. 

 Barley. 

 Oats .. 

 Beans . 



112 



108 



Weight 

 of straw. 



tons cwt. 

 1 18 

 1 4 

 1 9 

 1 17 



Bushels 

 per acre. 



34 

 45 



57 



Weight 

 per bushel. 



lbs. 

 60 

 49 

 40 

 65 



The hay, root, and green crop from 1850 to 1855 has 

 been as follows : — 



It should be renoarked in connexion with the table, that 

 the weight of turnips appears small, because they are 

 often eaten off before they have arrived at maturity. 



[The value of unexhausted improvements and increased ferti- 

 lity of the farm being considered as a full equivalent to the 

 expenditure in putting the farm into tenantablc condition 

 between 1846 when taken in hand, and Michaelmas, 1850, 

 when this account commenced. The result of this account, 

 under the circumstances of the great outlay in feeding 

 stuffs, and the small proportion of grain crops grown and 

 sold, should however be considered but as the first term of 

 a lease for 14 or 21 years, in which the cost of cultivation 

 would necessarily be more expensive than the latter portion 

 of the lease.] 



When the cheering that followed upon the reading of 

 this statement had subsided, Mr. Herbert continued, 

 reading a number of synopses and analyses of the above, 

 and from which we extract the following : 



* Including park team, or 38. 7id. exclusive. 

 t Or ISs. Sjd. exclusive. 



A Summary of Cattle Account, showing what the 

 Receipts have been on the Area of the Arable 

 portion of the Farm. 



Or £8 7s. 4d. on grass, and £3 4s. 6d. net per acre on 

 the two-thirds arable, in hay, roots, and green crops, 

 exclusive of the value of forage consumed by the six 

 horses belonging to the farm, and the three kept for the 

 use of the park and demesne grounds. 



The Dead-weight per Annum sold off from 1850 to 

 1855. 



Mutton 

 Beef.. . 

 Wool . 

 Pork . 

 Poultry 



Dead weight sold off pet 

 acre on 186 of arable. 



90.5 

 64.1 



6.6 

 58.8 



2.5 



222.5 



Dead weight sold off 



per acre on entire area 



of farm. 



64.1 



45.7 

 4.7 



41.9 

 1.8 



158.7 



Mr. Herbert then concluded with a grand summary of 

 the whole in these words : 



" The farm, with one-third of its area of arable land 

 in cereal, and two-thirds in hay, roots and crops, has 

 for five years, by the sale of fattened stock instead of 

 stores, under unfavourable circumstances, increased the 

 yield in wheat from 20 to 34 bushels, barley from 28 to 

 45 bushels, oats from 32 to 56 bushels ; and has paid a 

 full rent, and £b 9s. 2d. per cent, per annum interest 

 on capital employed, with prices averaging — wheat 6s. 

 lOd., barley 3s. 4d., oats 2s. lOd. per bush. ; mutton 

 7d., beef 6|d., pork bid. per lb. 



" The rate of interest realized is acknowledged to be 

 an insufficient remuneration for a tenant's skill in 

 management, risk, and interest in money ; but consi- 

 dering the improved condition of the farm, and the 

 security in the occupation or holding, a fair prospect 

 remains for the security of the undertaking." 



M. Trehonnais rose to propose the thanks of the 

 meeting to Mr. Herbert for his having; so kindly enter- 

 tained them that day. He said it would be difficult to 

 inaugurate a festival of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England for 1857 in a more beautiful way than they 

 had done that day. There they were assembled, men 

 from various climes and speaking various languages. But 

 at all events, they camefrom different quarters, not indeed 

 simply to wander under the beautiful shade of these trees, 

 nor to admire the magnificence of that splendid park, nor 

 to show the hospitality of that nobleman, who for mere 

 hospitality's sake had gathered them under his beauti- 

 ful roof; but to pay homage to agriculture, to take 

 stock of its laws, and measure the improvement it has 

 made by comparison with its condition in former years. 

 He repeated it, they would have found it difficult to in- 

 augurate it in a more beautiful and interestmg manner 

 than they had done that day, not only by witnessing the 

 results of the strenuous efforts which had been made by 

 an English gentleman farmer, one whose example, 

 whose influence, whose talents had been turned to the 

 most beautiful account, benefiting himself in the first 

 instance, and his neighbourhood by his example and 



