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The farm has been hehl with the sti])ulatioii that the straw, hay^ 

 root, and green crops were to be consumed thereon. The receipts in 

 respect o£ cereals and the amomit for g-rain sold ai'c shown in the balance 

 sheet (fo. 16). 



Only the best qualities of grain were sent to market, the remaining 

 or inferior sorts grown on the farm being consumed by stock, and charged 

 jigainst the same at their relative marketable prices. In this instance it 

 was found to be more prrtfitable to reserve all inferior corn for home 

 consumption rather than incur the expense of marketing the same. 

 When this inferior corn is used as artificial food in conjunction with 

 roots, &c., the tenant obtains a considerable addition to the manurial 

 fertilisers of the farm. 



Science affirms that the consummation of grain alone does not add t<c 

 the fertility of the soil, but nevertheless its manurial value in conjunction 

 with the consumption of the hay, root, and green crops on the farm, h;is 

 materially aided the increased production of cereals and meat. On thii4 

 farm the average of the three years to Michaelmas, 1873, of 30 bushels 

 of wheat per acre, is equal to Sir J. B. Lawes^ quotation in the Moriiiiiff 

 Post, October 13th, 1SS3, as produced by artificial manures only. 



The results achieved on the farm in question do not bear out Sir J. Ik 

 Lawes^ ideas as expressed in the following paragraph, viz. : — " I have 

 more than once pointed out the fallacy which lies in the statement that 

 the reduction in the price of an agricultural crop can be profitably met 

 by an increase in the yield. This is not only not true, but it is the 

 j'cverse of the truth.''' 



