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Account of Hall Farm 



the prevalence of the disease among^st the sheep a few years ago. 

 Great care has been taken in the selection of the flock, and also 

 in the management of it, as the price of the sheep now unsold 

 (and which are certainly not over estimated) will fully show. 



The following statement may give some idea of the manage- 

 ment of the flock: in the first week of August, 1845, the flock 

 consisted of about — 



300 full-mouthed ewes, selected for lambing the following spring. 

 250 ewes and wethers, from J J to 2 J years old. 

 300 lambs of the spring of 1845. 

 100 old sheep fatting. 



950 



Such of the lambs of the spring of 1845, and some of the ewes 

 and wethers from 1^ to 2 J years old, which are not wanted to 

 keep up the flock, are sold or fattened, and by that means the 

 flock is reduced, before the lambing-season of the following year, 

 to about 750. They are generally fattened on the farm. 



In the autumn of 1846, such of the 300 ewes as were selected 

 in August, 1845, but which have since become broken-mouthed, 

 will be put aside, and either sold or fattened, and their places 

 supplied by younger ones. 



I now approach a subject upon which there perhaps exists "a 

 greater difference of opinion than upon any other thing connected 

 with agriculture ; and that is the amount of capital required for 

 the cultivation of a farm of this size and quality ; for while 4/. or 

 5/. per acre is considered by some as sufficient for the purpose, 

 others contend that at least 10/. or 12Z. will be required. I do 

 not think, under ordinary circumstances, that 10/. per acre will 

 be found more than sufficient, and in the present instance I con- 

 ceive that the following estimate will be found a pretty correct 

 one. On entering a farm the tenant should calculate upon being 

 twelve months without any return, and provide accordingly. 



The stock on the farm, in the spring of 1838, consisted of and 

 were valued as follows : — 





£. 



5. 



d. 



10 Horses, at 25/. each 



. 250 



0 



0 



4 Milking cows 



36 



0 



0 



1 Calf 



2 



0 



0 



10 Barren cows 



. 65 



0 



0 



2 Sows .... 



5 



0 



0 



1 1 Store pigs .... 



6 



12 



0 



1 Boar .... 



2 



0 



0 



77 Ewes, at 30^. 

 143 Wethers, at SO^'. 



. 115 



10 



0 



. 211 



10 



0 



2 Rams .... 



3 



0 



0 



Carried forward . 



. £696 



12 



0 



