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in which such calculations must be made, and with having 

 in this particular item as in others illustrated the looseness 

 with which the results of such calculations must he held, 

 with an especial view to the warning against over-stocking 

 with which this section must conclude. 



The Implements required on the farm are sufficiently 

 enumerated in the examples given, in the previous chapter, 

 in the cases of the light land Wiltshire farm and the heavier 

 arable north country farms. There is an example too of dairy 

 farming given and an enumeration there. The implements 

 of tillage are determined by the number of teams required 

 the " implements " of carriage to some extent depend on 

 the distance of the market. The implements for preparing 

 food depend on the mode of stocking adopted ; and a good 

 deal of special equipment under this head hinges on special 

 cropping on the one hand and facilities for hiring 

 machinery on the other. Thus where potato cultivation 

 is largely adopted, the potato- digging machine will be pur- 

 chased, and when thrashing machines, and sometimes even 

 sowing machines, can be hired, the cost of providing ma- 

 chinery on small farms for these purposes may be avoided. 



The only economy we need refer to here is this 

 possibility of hiring machinery whenever the farm is not 

 large. Steam cultivators may be hired, and threshing 

 machines are generally hired. The former may lead to a 

 most useful economy of horse-power as well as of tillage 

 implements, ploughs, and cultivators. Threshing machines 

 are now able to turn out grain so perfectly fit for market, 

 that the purchase of some of the otherwise necessary barn 

 machinery may be also saved. 



It may be useful here to point out that the machinery of 



