PREFACE. 



IT is plain that so large a subject as is included 

 in the title of this volume, requires for its complete 

 treatment many more pages than can be devoted to 

 it here. The reader will however find that the 

 wants, both of the farm and of the estate, are 

 discussed in considerable detail. The implements 

 of the farm are enumerated and to some extent 

 described. The requirements of the farm in horse- 

 power, labour, and live-stock, are illustrated by a 

 number of examples, of which the lessons are care- 

 fully extracted. The amount of capital required is 

 also the subject of consideration ; and examples are 

 given of the kind of calculations on this subject 

 which any intending occupant of a farm must make 

 before the offer of a rent is determined on. 



