Fortunes for Farmers 



The keeping of really close and detailed accounts 

 with particulars of every transaction, and the 

 result thereof, is beyond the ordinary farmer, 

 for the labour involved would not be warranted 

 by the result. There have been cases — one on a 

 great estate in Norfolk — when figures were kept 

 of every field, so that it was known just what had 

 been made or lost in each one of them, and the 

 course of every animal was traced from start to 

 finish. The figures were most interesting, but it 

 took a whole army of clerks. In special cases, 

 however, where milking herds are kept, it is 

 impossible to keep the accounts of the yield and 

 quality of the milk, or the food given, too closely, 

 for only by such means can the right food, and 

 the right breed of cows be selected. The same 

 applies to pig or bullock breeding, and I must 

 remark here that a weighbridge is a most profitable 

 investment on a large farm. 



The feeding of stock is a vital point, and 

 deserves much closer attention. Every farmer 

 ought to have an acre or two of lucerne growing 

 close to his buildings to use green. It will pay 

 him better than anything else, yet how rare it is 

 to find a plot. Again, we are informed on good 

 authority that if cows are allowed free access to 

 a supply of rock salt they will give an increased 

 supply of milk, amounting in tested cases to as 



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