TO 



CHARLES HENRY WYNDHAM A^COURT REPINGTON, Esq. 



[The surviving Executor io the Rigid Honourable the 

 Lord Herbert of Lea.) 



Deaii Sir, 



It has been my privilege to analyze the accounts of twenty- 

 three years' (1850 to 1873) experience of farming on the Wilton House 

 Home Farm, near Salisbury, by Lord and Lady Herbert of Lea. As 

 Professor of Estate Management I have lectured upon the history and 

 results of the farm to the students of the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester. The facts derived from the analysis thereof are so com- 

 pletel}^ at variance with the opinions of land-owners, land-occupiers, land 

 agents, and the agricultural community generally in respect to the Land 

 Question, that I venture to make known the important facts as they 

 occurred on the above farm. In so doing I wish most emphatically to 

 remind my readers that I treat oi fads only, and not estimates. 



I have the honour to remain. 



Your faithful and obedient servant, 



THOMAS JOHN ELLIOT. 



SouTHwicK, Fareham, Hants, 

 July 1, 1884. 



