THE 



EQUIPMENT OF THE FAEM. 



INTBODUCTIOlSr. 



THE equipment of the farm, in so far as that is the work 

 of its owner, includes the provision of buildings in which 

 the tenant, his labourers, and his livestock, implements, 

 and produce may be accommodated, and various operations 

 connected with all of them carried on the provision also 

 of a water supply for both house and homestead the 

 division of the farm into fields by fences, and the access 

 to each by roads. All these are subjects connected rather 

 with the estate than with the farm, but as to which the 

 title under which we are writing will justify some amount 

 of expectation by the reader. These subjects will therefore 

 be to some extent discussed. But the main purpose of this 

 handbook is to enumerate and specify the requirements of 

 the cultivator as the tenant, not the owner of his" farm. 

 He requires a certain amount of capital with which to 

 turn the land he hires to profitable account. And this 

 capital he invests in implements for the due cultivation of 

 his land in horse-power, by which the implements are to 

 be worked in livestock, by which much of his produce will 

 be consumed and converted into marketable commodities 

 in purchased additions to the home-grown food, on which 



