88 The Landed Interest. 



easy and certain in their results, that it is sure 

 to pay. No doubt the increasing cost of labour 

 and materials is seriously felt, but the value of 

 land and of most kinds of agricultural produce 

 is likewise increasing. 

 Greater With regard to outlay on farm buildings, 



caution 



required there is not the same certainty of return. Farm 



in expendi- 

 ture on buildings are of two kinds, those for the accom- 

 farm 



buildings, modation of live-stock and the manipulation of 

 the crop, and those for the housing of the farmer 

 and farm labourers. In regard to the first, it is 

 only necessary to refer to the increasing prices 

 of live-stock to show the advantage of making 

 adequate and comfortable provision for their 

 food and shelter. But the time has gone by for 

 great corn barns. The corn is now much more 

 economically treated by stacking it in the field 

 where it grows, and threshing it out by loco- 

 motive engine-power when required. The 

 partial conversion of these large barns into 

 feeding-sheds, or in the grazing counties into 

 hay-sheds, is the best mode of turning them to 

 account ; and where farm-buildings have been 

 kept by the proprietor in good repair, their 



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