New and Improved Methods 



acres farmed entirely by the owner, upon 

 which is a small sugar factory and a wood 

 pulping mill with tar vats, and which gives the 

 owner an income of ^20,000 a year. The 

 land is not one whit better than that of 

 very many 5000 acre estates in England, 

 which at the best yield the owner ^2000 

 a year net income. There are also home 

 examples of what management can do in 

 the way of improving the financial condi- 

 tion of an estate. Unfortunately it is not 

 possible to make these cases public. One 

 case, however, may be cited, that of a large 

 estate from which the owner derived no 

 income whatever, but actually incurred a 

 heavy loss. In a few years under new 

 management, chiefly by saving the loss on 

 farms in hand and by reducing needless 

 expenditure on upkeep, the annual deficit 

 was wiped out and new income created, 

 altogether showing a difference of ;^9400 

 a year. In this connection the Duke of 

 Marlborough is giving a valuable example. 

 A few years ago he appointed a first-class 

 agricultural expert to take charge of a large 

 farm This farm is being run on a strictly 



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