2 THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FAKM. 



for the most part they are fed in manures for adding to 

 the fertility of the soil in seeds for the crops which it is 

 to yield in lahour, paid for and directed to all these 

 various ends. 



The equipment of the farm, as we propose to discuss 

 it, will thus include first the implements of the farm, and 

 next the number of stock of various kinds to be kept on it. 

 These are the subjects of our first two chapters ; the latter 

 being treated, not theoretically, but by a statement of the 

 actual facts in several enumerated examples. The quantity 

 of farm capital required for all these purposes is the 

 subject of a final chapter. And the various equipments 

 provided by the landlord also form the subject of separate 

 sections of the book. 



