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been obtained by the use o£ arable land and down pasturag-e, but without 

 the aid of meadow or pasture lauds (the fore share only of the Water- 

 meadow being- charged to feeding stuffs for sheep, and not as rent). 

 Occasionally young- stock were depastured in Wilton House Park, and 

 the agistment price was invariably charged against the farm. 



The foregoing- statements represent in minute detail what has been 

 accomplished in raising the fertility of the respective soils during the 

 first thirteen years of a term of twenty. The cereals averaged per acre, 

 viz.: Wheat, 32f bus. ; barley, 49^ bus.; oats, 57 J- bus.; beans, 35| 

 Inis. ; and the averages for the twenty years were, respectively : Wheat, 

 o£| bus.; barley, 4-6 bus.; oats, 57^; beans, 37 ^ bus. The cost of 

 production of the cereal croj)s in the thirteen years was £6 14s. 7|d., 

 and that for the twenty years £Q Is. 4|d., nearly approximating each 

 other. The ewe flock in the same period numbered 274, but between 

 1863 to 1870 an additional number of 38 increased the average to 313, 

 being the number of ewes kept for the term of twenty years. 



The produce of meat in the thirteen years, in quantities and price, 

 was: Mutton, 101 J lbs. per acre at 7ld. ; beef, 81 lbs. at 7d. ; swine, 

 pork and bacon pigs, 69f lbs. at oh ; poultry, SJ lbs. at 8d. The 

 produce for the term of twenty years, relatively, averaged : Mutton, 

 155f lbs. per acre at 8;|d. ; beef, 75 lbs. at 75d. ; pork and bacon pigs, 

 69\ lbs. to 5|d. ; poultry, 5i lbs. at 8d. The poultry statement, how- 

 ever, in the absence of detail, is somewhat incomplete. It will be 

 observed that during the thirteen years feeding stviffs cost £6 Os. 9d. 

 per acre, and the total cost of production was £12 17s. 9|d., and that 

 for the twenty years feeding stuffs cost £0 19s. Hd., and the total cost 

 of production Avas £14 6s. 2^d. The explanation of this is : the amount 

 spent per annum in artificial food during tlie thirteen years was required 

 in order to restore the land to a state of fertility ; and, moreover, in the 

 absence of pasture-land, and also to keep uj) the fertility of the soil, it 

 was found necessary to sjiend £6 19s. l|d. })er annum during the average 

 of twenty years. 



The effects of these sums being expended are elaborately shown in the 

 a])pendix. 



The receipts aud payments of the thirteen years and the twenty-three 

 years respectively, are epitomised and averaged for the sake of brevity, 

 so as to give the most comprehensive view of the accounts generally, 

 whilst a balance-sheet is given in the appendix, to which is added minute 

 and detailed statements of the products arising from sheep, cattle, pigs, 

 and 2)oultry. 



