38 A FARMER'S YEAR 



it round. For this land 1 pay 155-. per acre, or about 40/. for the 

 first year, and i^s. 6d. an acre, or about 46/. los. for future years. 



Lastly I hire the shooting rights over a large wood of 120 

 acres, known as Tindale Wood and belonging to Lord de Saumarez. 

 This is not strictly a farming item, but as a little shooting is generally 

 included in the record of ' A Farmer's Year ' (if the state of agri- 

 culture supplies him with means to pay for it) it may as well be 

 mentioned in the schedule. 



And now after these introductory remarks, and before we 

 proceed to follow the fortunes of my farming month by month, I 

 give here {vide p. 36) a sketch map of the Ditchingham farms, 

 whereon each field is numbered and marked with the various areas. 

 By means of this map any reader, who cares to trouble to do so, 

 can trace the fate of each individual close throughout the year, and 

 see which of the crops succeed and which of them fail. The book, 

 I trust, will tell him why they succeeded and why they failed. 



Next follows an important statement. A record of a farm 

 such as I propose would have little practical value unless the reader 

 were informed of the amount of capital invested, and instructed 

 generally as to the financial position. Therefore I print here a 

 profit and loss account for Bedingham and Ditchingham since I 

 took over each holding, and cash accounts showing the amount of 

 capital invested. 



u?it. Afichachnas, 1S97 



Ck. 

 By Valuation at Michaelmas, 1897 : 



£ s.d. £ s. J. 



Covenants 283 4 6 

 Horses . 187 o o 

 Stock, &'c. 6ii 26 

 Implements 145 o o 

 Corn . . 276 8 o 



1,502 15 o 



,, Cash at Bank . . . 228 17 7 



,, Mr. Haggard's ac- 

 count, 1896- ... 54 13 9 

 ,, Mr. Haggai'd's ac- 

 count, 1897- . . . 54 7 3 



1,840 13 7 



1,840 13 71 



' To this total must now be added 103/. paid last November for salualion on 

 Baker's, bringing it to 1,943/. ij^- ?"'■ - Since paid. 



