Business Management 



commercial basis, careful accounts are kept 

 and audited, to which any one, genuinely 

 interested, would be allowed access. The 

 labourers are paid a higher rate of wages, 

 and the labour bill has increased owing to 

 more work being put into the land. The net 

 income from the land has been raised and 

 the total production of the farm shows a 

 marked increase. If in the future landowners 

 are to make as much as possible out of their 

 estates they will have to train specifically for 

 the work. They need not necessarily be 

 practical farmers, but they must understand 

 what the land is capable of doing. They must 

 understand that the land can yield more than 

 it does at present. People are only beginning 

 to realize this point, which is really funda- 

 mental, and surely owners of land should 

 become missionaries of everything that is 

 soundly progressive. In this work of re- 

 generation the land agent also must play his 

 full part ; too often the agent wishes things 

 to remain in statu quo — so as to avoid 

 trouble and responsibility. Every agent 

 should be a first-class farmer, so that when 

 a farm in poor condition comes on hand, he 



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