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tion of each farm, and add certain other expenses that have been 
incurred for their common benefit. 
Expended p-evious to 31si July, 1879. 
£ s. d. 
On the Reclamation of Banuockbuvn, Xo. 1 .. 2,7G0 1 5 
„ Acbintoul, No. 2 .. 9,706 14 4 
Claggan, No. 3 .. 1,735 4 9 
Kinbrace, No. 4 ,. .558 3 8 
Baddaulocb, No. 5 .. 1,489 12 11 
Plant Account 2,996 10 9 
Total expended on Reclamation .. £19,246 7 10 
Shee]i Account 623 17 4 
Arable Farm Account 2,616 6 2 
Total £22,486 11 4 
The large item of plant account comprises the working horses 
^ind oxen, tools and implements, and various temporary build- 
ings erected for the reclamations, but not fitted to be of perma- 
nent use after the farms have been brought into cultivation. 
Ten horses are kept. They cost with their harness 550?. In 
addition to these about twenty hired ponies have been employed. 
Twelve working oxen have cost 320Z. Four pairs of these came 
from Norway. They are of great use in carting and harrowing, 
but are inferior as workers to the two pairs of native oxen. 
These latter are found to be much better than horses for work- 
ing upon soft ground. They are of great strength and patience, 
and are not apt to strain themselves as horses will at a dead pull. 
Carts, sledges, barrows, and various tools — such as spades, 
shovels, and picks — have cost about 700Z. The small tools have 
been a great expense, from the carelessness of the workmen. 
The labourers have been continually changing, and there is 
reason to fear that many tools have been taken away. 100/. has 
been spent on furnishing the iron house. About 1300Z. has been 
spent on temporary buildings, reckoned as part of the plant and 
not counted as buildings belonging to any particular farm. A 
part of the large item of " arable farm account " has been 
expended on a great store of artificial manures and seeds not yet 
sown ; another part has gone for farm implements ; and the rest 
has been laid out on the land at Achintoul. This is the least 
satisfactory part of the account ; for it would no doubt have 
been better to wait at Achintoul, as they are now doing upon 
the other farms, until atmospheric influences have done their full 
work in preparing the land for the growth of crops. There is 
often good reason for " the agricultural pace." If we do not 
leave time for Nature to do her work — by sunshine, frost, and 
