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Now as to the return, necessarily small, for the first 

 year. As I have said, for one rainy season the ground 

 should lie fallow ; a few mealies may, indeed, be sown 

 broadcast for pigs or cattle to feed ofT, but no return 

 can be expected. Before the next rains the ground 

 will be again cross-ploughed, and we would advise, 

 should the land be suitable, that it be planted entirely 

 with either Rose Coco or Canadian Wonder beans. 

 The yield of either variety is up to one ton per acre, 

 but as the soil is not yet thoroughly in order we will 

 not put the whole crop at more than fifty tons, worth 

 on the farm about £7 per ton, or ^350 in all. Let 

 the rent be taken at £50, and the net position at the 

 end of the year will be as follows : 



The ^1,200 capital will be reduced to £700, but 

 our farmers will be in possession of a house and im- 

 plements, oxen and buildings, we will hope of some 

 twenty or thirty sows and store pigs, and of two hundred 

 acres of thoroughly cultivated land, which should be 

 safe to produce a net income of ^600 per annum. 

 The next year should see the addition of perhaps 

 another hundred acres of cultivation of at least two 

 more teams of oxen, and possibly the nucleus of a 

 small herd of cattle. The alternative crop might be 

 wheat, maize, peas, lucerne, and possibly ten acres put 

 down in black wattle or coffee. At the end of this 

 second year a net income for the ensuing year of ^800 

 may be confidently anticipated, and at this point we 

 will leave off, I hope well satisfied as to future 

 prospects. 



What is the daily life on the ordinary small " mixed " 

 farm ? The farmer rises with the first streaks of dawn 

 and hurries out at six o'clock, when the labourers will 

 be mustered and apportioned their allotted task for the 



