FARINGDON 



FARM 



Farinelli, 

 Italian singer 



From an engraving 



made his first appearance in 1722. 

 This made him famous, and pro- 

 cured him lucrative engagements 



in Vienna and 



London. I n 

 1736 he went 

 to Madrid and 

 became a fav- 

 ourite of Philip 

 V. There he 

 remained for 

 25 years, being 

 loaded with 

 honours and 

 exercising al- 

 most regal 

 powers. His 



last years were passed at Bologna, 

 and he died July 15, 1782. The 

 exceptional beauty and range of 

 Farinelli' s voice and his wonderful 

 control over it made him one of 

 the most remarkable singers who 

 have ever lived, if not the greatest 

 of all male soprano singers. 



Faringdon. Market town of 

 Berkshire, England, known also as 

 Great Faringdon. A station on the 

 G.W. Rly., it is 13 m. W. of Abing- 

 don and 17 m. S.W. of Oxford. 

 All Saints Church is a large build- 

 ing with brasses and other memo- 

 rials; among other buildings are 

 the market hall and Faringdon 

 House. The agricultural centre for 

 a large district, Faringdon has a 

 trade in corn, cattle, etc. Market 

 day, Tues. Pop. 3,079. 



Faringdon, ALEXANDER HEN- 

 DERSON, IST BARON (b. 1850). 

 British business man and poli- 

 tician. A son 

 of George 

 Henderson of 

 Langholm, 

 Dumfries, he 

 was born in 

 London, Sept. 

 28, 1850. He 

 became a 

 s t o c kbroker, 

 and in time 

 head of the 

 firm of Greenwood & Co. Having 

 joined the board of the Great 

 Central Rly. in August, 1894, he 

 became chairman of the line, May, 

 1899. In 1898 he was returned 

 to Parliament as Unionist M.P. 

 for West Staffordshire, but lost 

 his seat in 1906. From 1913- 

 16 Henderson was M.P. for St. 

 George's, Hanover Square. _ In 

 1902 he was made a baronet 

 and in 1916 a baron, taking 

 his title from Faringdon, near 

 where is his seat, Buscot Park. 

 Farington, JOSEPH (1747-1821). 

 British artist and diarist. A pro- 

 minent R.A. in his day, he is now 

 chiefly noted for his voluminous 

 diaries, which were acquired by 

 The Morning Post early in 1922 

 and serialised in that journal. They 



Alexander Henderson, 

 1st Baron Faringdon 



abound in anecdote and gossip, and 

 most of the eminent men and 

 women of his time figure in them. 

 The diaries were published in book 

 form in 1922. 



Farini, LUIGI CARLO (1812-66). 

 Italian statesman. Born at Russi, 

 near Ravenna, Oct. 22, 1812, he 

 early became 

 an ardent na- 

 tionalist, and 

 in 1843 was 

 banished from 

 the papal 

 states. On the 

 election of 

 Pius IX in 1846 

 he returned to 



Luigi Farmi. Rome as secre- 



Italian statesman tary to the 

 ministry of the interior, and later 

 was appointed to the department of 

 publich health. On the declaration 

 of the Roman Republic, 1849, he 

 resigned, but, disappointed at 

 the trend of Pius's policy, Farini 

 went to Turin, and wrote his 

 famous Lo Stato Romano dal 1815 

 al 1850 in 1851. The same year he 

 became minister of public instruc- 

 tion and an ardent supporter of 

 Cavour, creating a deep impression 

 by his letters to Gladstone on 

 Italian problems. In 1859 Farini 

 was sent as Piedmontese commis- 

 sioner to Modena, became dictator 

 of the duchy, and negotiated the 

 transfer of Modena, Parma and Tus- 

 cany to Piedmont. Appointed 

 minister of the interior, 1860, he 

 became prime minister of the new 

 kingdom of Italy, 1861-63, and 

 died Aug. 1, 1866. 



Farjeon, BENJAMIN LEOPOLD 

 (1833-1903). British novelist. Born 

 in London, of Jewish descent, he 

 early migrated to Australia. He 

 edited a newspaper at Dunedin, 

 New Zealand, before returning to 



London, where in 1870 he pub- 

 lished Grif, A Story of Australian 

 Life, which was immediately suc- 

 cessful. His 

 novels, realis- 

 tic and senti- 

 mental, fre- 

 quently dealt 

 with mysteries 

 and the detec- 

 tion of crime. 

 Among the 

 more notable 

 were London's Benjamin L. Farjeon, 

 Heart, 1873; Brihsb novelist 

 The Duchess 



of Rosemary Lane, 1876 ; The 

 House of White Shadows, 1884; 

 Toilers of Babylon, 1888 ; Aaron 

 the Jew, 1894 ; and The Mesmerists, 

 1900. He died July 23, 1903. 



Farley, JOHN MURPHY (b. 1842). 

 Roman Catholic prelate. Born at 

 Newton Hamilton, co. Armagh, 

 Ireland, April 

 20, 1842, he 

 was educated 

 in Monaghan, 

 New York, and 

 Rome. Or- 

 dained priest, 

 June 11, 1870, 

 he was assist- 

 ant pastor of 

 S.Peter's, New 

 Brighton, Sta- 

 ten Island. 1870-72 ; secretary to 

 Archbishop M'Closkey, 1872-84; 

 private chamberlain to Leo XIII, 

 1884 ; vicar-general, New York 

 diocese, 1891, and domestic prelate 

 to Leo XIII, 1892. Consecrated 

 auxiliary bishop of New York, 

 1895, he became archbishop of New 

 York, 1902, and was made a 

 cardinal, Nov. 27, 1911. He wrote 

 a Life of Cardinal M'Closkey, 1900, 

 and a History of S. Patrick's 

 Cathedral, N.Y., 1908. 



John M. Farley, 

 Irish prelate 



THE FARM: TYPES AND ORGANIZATION 



J. C. Newsham, Principal, Monmouthshire Agricultural Inst. 



This article describes the nature of the farm and its varieties, 



leaving the subject of its products to articles such as Agriculture; 



Cattle; Crops. See also Barley ; Electro-Culture; Wheat 



The word farm, when understood 

 with etymological propriety, can 

 designate only such land and build- 

 ings as are rented or held by a 

 tenant, but in ordinary modern 

 usage it may designate also the 

 home farm of a large estate, or the 

 small landed property of one who 

 is himself both owner and farmer. 

 The word itself originally comes 

 from the late Lat. firma, a tribute 

 or fixed payment. 



The home farm on a large estate 

 may be run on commercial lines 

 to obtain the greatest profit, or 

 merely to supply farm produce to 

 the family and the immediate 



dependents of the landowner, or as 

 a model to exhibit all that is 

 modern in the way of farm- 

 buildings, and to demonstrate the 

 best methods of husbandry suit- 

 able for the district. The modern 

 tendency is to conduct home farms 

 on purely commercial lines, leaving 

 agricultural colleges, farm insti- 

 tutes, and schools of agriculture to 

 experiment and demonstrate in all 

 matters pertaining to the advance- 

 ment of agriculture. 



The Great War resulted in many 

 small patches of pasture land in 

 the British Islands being brought 

 under the plough. Thus farms are 



