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Ex'penditure. 



Purchase money ..... £597,925 



Improvement works, including drainage, fencing, road- 

 making, building, etc. .... 158,513 



Cost of Surveys ..... 9,413 



Annual Charges, head rents, rates, purchase of cattle, 



etc. . . . . . . 32,139 



Miscellaneous Expenditure . . . . 15,014 



Interest on Capital . . . . . 60,948 



Total . £873,952 

 Deduct — Adjustments for land transferred to be sold 



with other estates .... £878 



Total Expenditure . £873,074 



Receipts. 



Estimated profits on sale of estates . £655,195 



Total sums from permanent tenants for 

 rent or interest on sale price of 

 holdings . . . . 128,428 



Receipts for cattle sold, grazing rents, etc. 36,660 



Sums received from tenants for occupa- 

 tion interest of additional land given 

 to them .... 11,629 



Miscellaneous receipts and stores in hand 7,126 



Total Receipts . £839,038 



Leaving a loss of . £34,036 



without charging anything for administration expenses and for 

 interest on money lent by the Board from its own funds. 



But the Board did much more. The steps thus far enumerated 

 were all preliminary steps. They simply placed at the disposal of 

 the farmer the raw material out of which he was to produce 

 sufficient to maintain himself. The Irish farmer, however, needed 

 something more than the raw material. He needed to be taught 

 how to use it, and the Congested Districts Board, which is a very 

 paternal Board, has done this at a cost of £207,065. It has 

 established experimental plots in different districts with the view 

 of introducing rotation cropping and showing the farmers how to 

 cultivate their land. It has sent half a dozen or more agricultural 

 instructors to give the necessary instruction. It has provided 

 sires sometimes for nothing, and always on easy terms, for the 

 purpose of improving the breed of stock, and it lias developed 

 minor industries, such as the feeding of pigs, the rearing of 

 poultry, and the keeping of bees. It gives a grant to the I.A.O.S. 

 to teach the farm^ers how to co-operate. It has even marketed the 

 farnK'r's produce. 



