where ample capital and skilled farming are forthcoming ; and to make 

 myself understood^ I venture to quote the following extracts from the 

 Professor^s analysis^ which show the result in cultivating inferior arable 

 land of a purely calcareous character and a chalky subsoil. 



The results attained on the Wilton House Home Farm (marked A) 

 compared with the returns of eighty -five producers in eleven counties, as 

 published in the Times newspaper, September 14th, 1885 (marked B), are 

 shown as follows : — 



Cereals. 



Rent and Tithes 



Rates and Taxes 



Manual Labour 



Seed purchased and of home growth 



Horse Corn 



liorse Forage, exclusive of Straw and Chaff 



Market and Fair Expenses ... 



Cost and wear and tear of Implements (the 

 quantity kept in column A being exces- 

 sive) 



Sundries 



Bad Debts 



Manure and Chemicals purchased ... 

 Total Cost of Production per Acre ... 



£ s. d. 



1 10 3 



1 16 9i- 



16 ej 



13 log 



2 Oi 



1 51 



4 7 

 3 3 

 64 



£ s. d. 

 1 10 3 



3 19 O.a 



9 3f 

 12 1 



6 1 41 



£ s. d 

 1 15 7 

 5 



3 17 8 



£ s. d. 

 2 7 



3 17 8 



5 18 3 

 2 12 6 



8 10 9 



Memo. 



A. — Per acre in receipt of Cereals, Wheat being produced at 4s. S^d. per 

 bush., or 37s. 6d. ])er quarter .. ... 



B. — Wheat being produced at 4s. Od. per bush., or 36s. per quarter exclusive 

 of £2 12s. Gd. charged — it is presumed erroneously — to Cereals only, and 

 not coupled with Hay, Root, and Green Crops for Manure 



£7 8 ^ 



£8 8 



The rent, tithes, rates, and taxes on A are the actual charges upon 

 the average of twenty-three years made upon lands of an inferior type 

 to the averages of the kingdom. The like charges on B are concluded 

 to be on the average class of farms in the eleven counties upon which 

 they are made, or, otherwise, the average of the kingdom (the difference 

 in rent, on cereals only, being 10s. 4d. per acre) . 



