226 Mr. W. G. Hogarth's Views. 



50 to 60 acres of turnips, and a fair, liberal allowance of other 

 feeding stuffs at certain seasons to both ewes and hoggs, all the 

 lambs and drafts for sale could, I think, be easily brought out in 

 good condition. Also, having 100 acres or thereby of crop would 

 have maintained a goodly niunber of best stirks, letting them 

 run out during the day most of the winter, bringing them out 

 for sale in early spring, the best of them in good condition 

 ready to finish off on grass, and either sell the smaller and 

 thinner sorts, or graze and sell them in autumn, buying in 

 younger cattle then, according to crop and prospects of keep. 



There is no need for me to go into detail as to what fields to 

 crop because you have so much scope to select whatever the man 

 on the spot in any given season should think would be most 

 suitable, and I would not bind him down even to take a white 

 crop after turnips in every year, as on some of the outlying land 

 a crop of turnips eaten on the ground and then sown out with a 

 suitable mixture of grasses, of which you are an acknowledged 

 expert, might very well be the most profitable. 



Such would have been my lines of farming when you entered, 

 and I do not think that, for another period of 15 to 20 years, 

 it would need much, if any, variation. 



We cannot get good sheep for fattening purposes — half-bred, 

 three-quarter-bred, Oxford, or any other cross — ^without their 

 mothers having a certain amount of turnips for their health's 

 sake ; and to keep up a good standard of half-bred ewes is for all 

 this district the keystone of our business, so far as has yet been 

 found out. 



Hoping that I have answered your queries as desired, 



I am. 



Tours faithfully, 



W. Gr. Hogarth. 



Eobert H. Elliot, Esq., 

 Clifton Park, Kelso, N. B. 



