Of course, under such circumstances, justice to the land should 

 admit the urgent claim for readjustment of taxation. 



With these preliminary observations, prompted by a due considera- 

 tion of the general question, it will be necessary to show the bearing of 

 the Wilton House Home Farm on the suggested " eight-acre " farm 

 now proposed as a test to the conclusions arrived at by Professor Elliot's 

 analysis of the farm accounts. It will be remembered that the farm 

 consisted of 200 acres of arable land, of an inferior type to the average 

 of the kingdom, with sixty- six acres of Down, or Sheepwalk. The 

 cropping averaged, for twenty-three years, four-ninths cereals and five- 

 ninths in hay, root, and green crops, or meat products ; being about 

 the proportion which the arable land in the kingdom bears to the 

 pasture or grass (excepting mountain sheepwalks or pasture). The 

 quality of the soils of the farm are minutely described in Professor 

 Elliot's work ; the normal products being estimated at 18 or 20 bushels 

 of wheat, 28 of barley, and from 32 to '36 of oats ; the average soils in 

 the kingdom being considered by Sir J. Lawes to stand relatively : 

 Wheat, 28xo ; barley, 37^; oats, 47yo ; beans, 31to- 



The eight-acre farm now contemplated as a test of the analysis of 

 Wilton House Home Farm is considered as a type in quality of soil and 

 in circumstances of down pasture, but confined to purely farming 

 results, and irrespective of proximity to game coverts, which this Home 

 Farm had to contend with, and for damages from which no compensation 

 is claimed in this account. The cropping of the eight acres is, however, 

 varied to four-eighths cereals and four-eighths meat products, with 

 a view to assimilate comparatively with the light and heavy soils in this 

 country. 



The following six diagrams denote the four acres cereals and four 

 acres meat products. The quantities per acre produced, and the prices 

 realised for each, are on the average of the twenty-three years — 

 1850-1873. The cereals are shown by Professor Elliot to have been 

 produced on the Wilton Home Farm at a profit of £4< 17s. 5d. per 

 acre. The meat products, however, cost more in their production than 

 the amount realised by their sale, and this loss being £2 18s. 8d. per 

 acre, consequently reduced the ultimate profit of the cereals. " k" dia- 

 gram accordingly represents the gross amounts, and " A I" the nett prices. 



" B " represents the agricultural pivot on which the abrogation of the 

 Corn Laws was achieved by the Peel Ministry, and successfully worked 

 out on Wilton House Home Farm. The cereals are shown by Professor 

 Elliot to have been produced at the prices quoted in the diagram, yielding 

 a profit of 10 per cent, on the extensive capital employed by the producer. 



