104 A Modern Bee-Farm 
is carried out day by day. But if one has little or no 
capital, he must, of course, be content to start from little 
beginnings, and work up gradually upon the rules herein 
laid down, when if he has sufficient energy and “grit” he 
will ultimately push on over every obstacle. 
Profit from the Land, 
we are told, is something belonging to the past. But it is 
only the grumblers, the shiftless, and those who cannot or 
will not change with the times, who tell us this tale. Until 
quite recently the holder of a 300 acre farm was clearing 
41,000 per annum from ordinary farming. Another well- 
to-do farmer having good grazing ground, made better by 
being constantly stocked, recently told me he would buy 
in a lot of two-year-old bullocks, and within a few months 
always sold them fattened at a clear profit of £5 per head. 
Then just profit by the case of an old gentleman, who 
in that wonderfully dry year of 1893 had on hand seventeen 
hay stacks, each representing the proceeds of a different 
year; and all sold at 410 per ton. Now if each stack 
amounted to only ten tons, what a nice little sum, 41,700 
quietly accumulating, during all those years. But, of 
course, the farmer will not always be so fortunate as this, 
but why should he sell for £2 or so when hay, sooner or 
later, goes up to 45 or 46 per ton? At these figures it 
should be held no longer, for it does not do to be too 
certain about such prices continuing; as instance another 
farmer in 1893 was offered £10 per ton for 50 tons; but no, 
he must have ten guineas; when lo! by the following 
Spring the value went down rapidly to less than half. 
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A Thirty Acre Farm. 
Of these, 20 acres should be laid off for hay, leaving 
eight or nine for pasturage for stock; the balance being 
