exceeds those quoted by Sir James. My predictions at present are that 

 the average products of the kingdom should be raised to that obtained 

 on the Wilton House Home Farm for cereals^ viz., 36 bushels per acre of 

 wheat, as an average (other crops following in ratio), also increased 

 production of mutton and beef to the extent at least of 305 lbs. of meat, 

 and 12 lbs. of wool per acre. 



It must not be forgotten that these calculations are for arable land 

 only, and not influenced by the lessened cost of producing meat by the 

 grazing of meadow or pasture lands, which constitute so large an 

 area of the kingdom. It only remains to be shown how the successful 

 result of £11 7s. 10|d. per cent, profit, which is arrived at by the 

 Wilton House experiments, can best be applied to the circumstances of 

 the kingdom. It is a momentous matter at the present time, and calls 

 for further consideration. I have threaded closely Professor Elliot's 

 proved analysis, and I abide by its results in the necessary calculations 

 (allowing for variation in rent) , and if it is true that " what has been 

 done, in the natural order of things may be done again,'' then the 

 results obtained from the Wilton House Home Farm ought to encourage 

 the tenant farmer of the present day. I venture to predict that the 

 conclusions arrived at by the writer of the article " Crop and Stock 

 Prospects," viz., "That wheat-growing at present prices gives a heavy 

 dead loss, not far short of the landlord's entire rent," is a delusion, and 

 calculated to mislead, inasmuch as it is shown that 20 per cent, loss on 

 the Wilton House Home Farm, amounts only to j660 per annum on a 

 rent of £300, and I hope to make this matter more apparent. 



In reviewing these results, it may be but fair to scan the effects of 

 the depression which has prevailed in leading agricultural districts of the 

 kingdom ; as, for example, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, and districts in Scot- 

 land, where the effect of a succession of bad seasons has brought to the 

 front disastrous circumstances. But as the tenant farmer had struggled 

 on from 1846 to 1884 in the decade of falling prices, it would seem that 

 the succession of bad seasons had induced the money-lender to withdraw 

 the aid which had previously been afforded to those farmers wanting the 

 necessary capital to carry on their holdings ; and the consequence is that 

 vast districts are tenantless, not through farming being a bad business, 

 but from the scarcity of tenants with the necessary capital to conduct 

 their business profitably. This matter I venture to think will be shown 

 as I proceed with my exposition of Professor Elliot's publication. 



In pursuing my remarks, I observe that the cropping of the farm in 

 question, between 1850 and 1863, was that about two-thirds of the 

 Hookland arable, and two-fifths of the Field and Down arable, were in 



