32 AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION 



Mr Dewar, in North-west Norfolk, makes mixed 

 farming pay " with two or three strings to his bow," such 

 as poultry, which " has paid better than any other 

 branch of stock this last year or two." He has not 

 altered the method of cultivation, as the land is not 

 suited for permanent pasture, but saves by machinery, 

 and sells off straw. 



Mr Jabez Turner instances a farm in the heavy clay 

 district of Stratford-on-Avon, where potato-growing, 

 combined with bullock fattening, succeeds well. The 

 tenant has capital, farms high, and sells or consumes at 

 discretion. 



Scotch farmers are doing well in Hertfordshire, near 

 the railways, by a seven-course system, including two 

 years of potatoes, somewhat on the Lothian system. 

 They work hard, and manure from London helps. They 

 even pay increased rents.^ 



In the Sleaford union of Lincolnshire a holding of 

 790 acres, one-fourth pasture, farmed on the four-course, 

 in excellent order, and in good hands, has made aa 

 average of nearly 3 per cent, on capital between 1889 

 and 1894. 



Another four-course, turnip and barley farm in the 

 Grantham Union, in the owner's hands has made for 

 same period about ij per cent, on capital.^ 



Mr E. Turnor, who owns 21,000 acres in Lincolnshire, 

 has made off an excellent barley farm, now in hand, an 

 interest of 3^ per cent, on capital, besides the same rent 

 as the old tenant — i6s an acre. Four other farms, 

 heavy land, taken in hand in bad condition, have paid 

 3I per cent, interest, but scarcely any rent. 



An arable four-course farm in North-east Norfolk 

 of 425 acres, half of it good mixed soil, half light land, 

 uniformly worked and well kept up, shows on fourteen 

 years an average net return of ;^246 or over 7 per cent, on 

 capital, but taking the last six years, from 1887 to 1893, 

 there is an average net profit of ;^39i or over 1 1 per cent. 



' A. Spencer, Herts, pp. 14, 40. 



^ Wilson Fox, Lincolnshire, App. A. I. F. 



