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If these rules are attended to, there is no good reason why home farms 

 should not pay. If any extra improvements are done on the farm, it 

 should be determined what is the landlord's share as proprietor, and 

 what is his share as tenant. The bailiff should keep a proper statement 

 of everything done under each head, in books kept for the purpose ; and 

 every item, and all work done for any other department of the estate, 

 should be regularly entered, whether paid for or not. There is another 

 mode of dealing with a home farm in regard to the improvements on it, 

 which I adopted on estates under my management. The bailiff is placed 

 on the farm as if he were tenant of course subject to his employer's 

 authority. A great number of improvements were carried out on the 

 farm, in the way of drainage, new roads, new fences, new buildings, and 

 reclamation of waste lands ; but the bailiff had merely his duties to 

 attend to in the ordinary cropping and working of the farm, while the 

 permanent improvements were carried out, under my own superintend- 

 ence, by a separate staff, and quite independent of the farm. The bailiff 

 paid the rent of the farm along with the other tenants on rent-audit days, 

 and he also paid interest on the outlay on the improvements on the 

 farm, after allowing it to have full six months' benefit from the improve- 

 ments before the interest commenced ; and when the farm-horses had 

 time to assist in the improvements by the cartage of stones and other 

 materials for buildings, roads, and fence-walls, the farm was credited 

 with the work done at the same prices given to others. 



It is a good plan for the bailiff to furnish a weekly report of his 

 stewardship, as thereby the proprietor or his agent can always have a 

 check upon him. The following is a form of farm-bailiff's report which 

 I have used : 



FARM 



