BEDINGHAM, DITCHING HAM &^ THE FARMS 39 



DiTCHINOHAM 

 Profit and Loss on each year 

 Profit 



1890 .... 



'891 98 3 



1892 62 I [ 



1893 - 



1894 114 19 



1895 — 



1896 i86 5 



1897 252 13 



Loss 



Net profit on eight yeans 



714 13 4 

 173 19 9 



540 13 7 



Loss 

 C ^. d. 

 140 17 5 



32 II 10 

 o 10 6 



173 19 9 



Bedingham. Cash Account. Michaelmas, 1897 



Dr. 

 To Capital 



Cr. 



700 



700 



Ry Valuation of Live and 

 Dead Stock, Covenants, 

 and Corn, Michaelmas, 



1897 



, , Cash at Bank .... 

 ,, Mr. Haggard'saccouiit' 

 ,, Balance (loss) . . . 



700 o o 



1895 



1896 



1897 



Bedixgh.'\.m 



Profit and Loss on each year 



Profit 



L s- d. 



26 5 8 

 71 19 3 



Net loss on three years . 



Loss 

 "9 3 5 



102 4 II 

 16 iS 6 



From these accounts it will be seen that in my three years' 

 farming at Bedingham I have up to Michaelmas 1897 incurred a 

 net loss of 16/. i8j". dd. To this deficit, however, should be added 

 loss of rent at say io.r. per acre for three years — 153/. (in 1868 it 

 let for 135/. a year !), and loss of interest on 700/. at 5 per cent. 

 for three years — 105/. So, without the advantage of winning a daily 



' Since paid. 



