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occupied by the house, farm buildings, gardens, etc. After 
the land is worked up into a condition of settled stability, 
by the use of farm-yard manure, by pasturing cattle, the 
keeping of poultry, the judicious use of artificial manures, 
and re-seeding if and when required, the occupier will have 
a bank at his own back-door, such as few other investments 
can offer; as when land is once brought into a state of 
great fertility, the cost of keeping it so is comparatively 
little. If he has not in the first place the means to bring 
it rapidly to this condition, then as before stated, it will be 
a matter of years in the doing. 
Very well, at this stage, at a moderate estimate, the 
20 acres will produce 30 tons of hay yearly, which at an 
average rate of £3 per ton will be worth 490; but leaving 
ten tons for home use, we can allow for 20 tons to be sold 
for £60. 
Cows and Growing Stock. 
The remaining eight acres, after excluding other plots 
and a large garden, should be worth £10 per acre as pasture 
for cows in milk, and young growing stock, for the open 
season, say from March to September; this being equal 
to 480. I will now show how this is understating the 
facts. A four-acre field which would hardly yield one 
half ton of hay per acre when I took to my farm, has 
yielded £2 a week in milk and butter for seven months 
from two cows and one heifer ; besides supporting for that 
period two other heifers, thereafter coming into profit; a 
total of 456 from the four acres. But these were Jersey 
cows, and good Jerseys at that, such as average 10 dbs. of 
butter weekly during the whole period they are in profit. 
It costs no more food or attention to keep good stock than 
is required for poor profitless animals ; then why should a 
man bother himself with sheer rubbish on which he is 
losing money daily ? 
