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perhaps forty years. It is only on paper these things 

 can be done. 



In the third year of the experiment, however, a 

 sufficiency of albuminous food had been grown to 

 balance the non-albuminous, and an expenditure on 

 feeding stuffs for cattle and sheep of only £81 2s. 2d. 

 was necessary. The sales of this kind of stock 

 amounted to the sum of £5,188 14s. 7 d., which 

 represents about 7s. 6d. for every fat bullock 

 sold. Had it not been that the bullocks were 

 chiefly sold for export to England, and in 

 consequence, in order to " tighten them " had to be 

 fed on astringent food before railing, even this 

 expenditure could have been dispensed with. Since 

 the accounts were made up, it has actually been 

 dispensed with, for in the first three months of the 

 current year, ending February 28th, 1917, the value 

 of the fat cattle sold is £1,490 10s. 6d., whilst the 

 purchase, of cattle feeding stuffs is nil. 



COST OF PIG FOODS 



The expenditure on pig foods, small as it may 

 appear, is, in the writer's opinion, too high, being, 

 as may be seen from the accounts, £80 18s. 6d. for 

 the £218 16s. lOd. worth of pork sold in the year 

 1915-16. For reasons, which need not be entered 

 into here, it was not possible for the writer, on this 

 particular farm, to carry out his folding system of 

 feeding pigs, which he so strongly recommends. 



Just as it is possible, as the system of Continuous 

 Cropping develops, to reduce the expenditure on 

 feeding stuffs, so is it possible to make a. similar 

 reduction in the expenditure on manures and seeds. 



As is mentioned later, it is very necessary, to be 

 liberal in the use of artificial manures, when the 



