EXAMPLES OF STOCKING OF FARMS 703 



Implements. Total cost per acre, ^i on a farm half arable and half 

 pasture, up to 303. if it is all arable, or even 2 per acre if many new and 

 expensive implements be bought, or when the holding is small. A 500- 

 acre farm might thus have ^500 to ^750 or ^1000 of capital sunk in 

 implements. 



Capital required for an ordinary farm = ^5, ,8, or ^10 per acre : in 

 high farming it may mount up to more. 



EXAMPLE No. i 



Is given as an answer to the first three questions set in the Examination 

 for the Diploma of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1884. 



Question (i.) "What capital is required for a farm of 500 acres half 

 arable and half pasture the arable being turnip and sheep land, the 

 grass, 50 acres good feeding land, the rest suited for young stock?" 

 Question (2.) " What proportion of capital would you apply to 



"i. Cattle. 2. Sheep. 3. Horses. 4. Implements and 



machines. 5. Tillages, etc. ?" 



Question (3.) " State the most suitable course of cropping." 

 N.B. In all arable farm calculations the rotation is the first point to 

 settle. 



Ans. to Question (3.) Rotation for 250 Acres Arable. 



A Five-course Shift. 



1. Wheat, 50 acres. 



2. Oats, 50 acres (better straw for fodder than barley). [Catch crops 



following more or less ; as rye, trifolium, vetches, rape, etc., for 

 sheep food in spring.] 



3. Roots, 50 acres, mostly eaten on the land by sheep j part carted 



to the yard for cattle. 



4. Barley, 50 acres (part might be oats instead). 



5. " Seeds," 50 acres, all cut once for hay and the after- or latter- 



math eaten by sheep. 



Ans. to Question (2.) To find the numbers, and affix the prices, of the 

 Horses, Cattle, and Sheep, that the foregoing 250 acres of arable 

 and 250 acres of grass-land will keep. 



Cattle. 



250 acres, total of grass. 

 50 (the best) keep 50 fatting bullocks. 



200 left. 

 75 keep 50 bullocks one year younger. 



125 left. 

 1 6 (second quality) to graze 8 horses. 



109 left. 

 34 cut for hay. 



75 left for sheep. 



