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waste of time by those employed on the farm, this cause alone will 

 interfere with any profits arising from it. 



Another great drawback to making a home farm pay directly is, that 

 generally, if there is any cartage to do about the proprietor's residence, 

 and about the home garden, the farm-horses have it all to do, and the 

 farm is not allowed any recompense for it, unless there is a proper 

 system of accounts kept. I have known home farms supply all the 

 cartage-work to a large establishment at a landed proprietor's residence, 

 besides carting every year manures, gravel, &c., to the garden, and no 

 allowance made ; and I have also known the proprietor's establishment 

 supplied with milk, butter, and eggs, together with beef, mutton, pork, 

 hay, and oats, from the home farm, where the housekeeper and coach- 

 man had a better chance of getting credit for good management than the 

 bailiff, as those functionaries did not pay for the articles mentioned, and 

 the bailiff could not credit the farm with their value from not keeping 

 proper accounts. Under such circumstances it is impossible to tell 

 whether a home farm pays or not. 



Landed proprietors in general cannot have the same reason to apply 

 to their farms not paying as in the case of some tenant-farmersnamely, 

 want of capital. 



The chief objects to attend to in carrying out a home farm are the 

 following : 



1st, The employment of a skilled, sharp, shrewd, and active farm- 

 bailiff, who is thoroughly honest. 



2d, All the farm-servants should be thoroughly honest, and zealously 

 faithful in the discharge of their duties. 



3d, When it is practicable to do so, it would tend to a good result if 

 both farm-bailiff and labourers had an interest in the farm ; that is to 

 say, if they were allowed a certain wage and a percentage besides on 

 the profits. 



4th, The proprietor should take an active supervision himself ; if this 

 cannot be done, his agent should do so ; but avoiding, at the same time, 

 unnecessary interference with the arrangements of the bailiff, and no 

 step should be taken without consulting him. 



5th, If any experiments are tried, they should not be done at the 

 expense of the farm. 



6th, Every article, however small, that is supplied by the farm to the 

 proprietor's establishment, and also any cartage to any other department 

 of the estate, should be regularly charged for, and each department 

 debited with the amount. Accounts for such articles and other claims 

 should be sent in by the farm-bailiff monthly to the person in charge of 

 each department. 



