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ing cows. Consequently when he has land and stock, he 

 will also be a producer of hay, and now we begin to see 

 how a man, pining after a freer and healthy outdoor life, 

 may support his family, if not in affluence, then, at least, 

 in comfort. 



£300 a Year from 30 Acres. 



Having extended the title of this work, I am under 

 ah obligation to my readers to substantiate the above 

 statement. Of course, if anyone wishes to see this 

 realised in his own case, he must be a man with a certain 

 amount of capital, and be prepared to spfend a year or 

 so on a suitable farm where he can see how the routine 

 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"' 

 to push on over every obstacle, he will ultimately come 

 face to face with his ;^300 per annum from 30 acres. 



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 

 ;£'i,ooo 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 £$ 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 ;^io per ton. Now if each 



