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I have therefore allowed a very large margin upon the 

 expenses of getting in the hay, for carting, and artificial 

 manures, if required ; there is also a second cut from one 

 or other of the fields, to be utilised for home use. 

 On the eight acres of pasture also enough margin is 

 allowed for paying a large part of the rent, or labour ;, 

 though an active, healthy man will not require much 

 hired labour on a little grass farm apart from the 

 haying. The 100 hens and the several thousand 

 chickens reared therefrom will leave a very large margin 

 towards rent and other expenses, in the valuable manure 

 left upon the land. Then again the 20 acres after cutting, 

 will in value of pasture alone, make a heavy item towards, 

 the rent of the farm. 



When I state that in apiaries worked for honey the 

 stocks will often average loolbs. per colony, while some 

 colonies of bees have stored up to 300lbs. and more, and 

 my own apiary yields several times the amount shewn, it 

 will be agreed that the profits from a 30 acre farm are 

 not by any means overstated, especially as I have not set 

 anything down as a profit from the young orchard of four 

 acres, which should form part of a 30 acre farm when, 

 owned by the occupier. 



The proportion of profit from a larger holding will, 

 of course, decrease, because of ^the greater expenses in 

 labour and other items ; but I am aware that very small 

 holdings when used for market gardening purposes will 

 show much larger returns at times, but there is more 

 expense in labour, and more risks to run. 



