LECTURE VIII 

 ESTATE MANAGEMENT 



The present lecture will be devoted to a general review 

 of the various ways in which agricultural estates may he 

 developed by the investment of capital, and the principles 

 on which their management should be conducted. We 

 shall take a brief survey of those means which the landlord 

 should adopt for improving the agriculture of his tenants 

 for securing good relations with his tenants, and generally 

 for managing his property and his finances in a prudent and 

 profitable manner. 



To begin with, we must notice that the development 

 of a landed estate has two distinct aspects. On the one 

 hand are to be considered its external relations : its access 

 to markets, its connection by pucca roads with a main road 

 and with the nearest railway station or market town ; its 

 relation to an irrigation canal or big river, and the means 

 of draining surplus water from the estate. On the other 

 hand, there is the internal development of the estate the 

 provision of water-supply, of farm buildings, and plantations 

 of trees for fuel and fruits, and so forth. These we must 

 consider separately ; and then we may consider how the 

 practice of agriculture on the estate may be improved by 

 the introduction of machinery, improved live-stock, better 

 seed and so forth. We must then consider the business side 

 of the managraent of the estate how it* should be organized, 

 and how the improvements should be financed ; and finally we 

 may consider the various ways in which a good landlord 

 will seek to improve the health and general welfare of his 

 tenants. 



