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on boulder-clay, with a small portion of " mixed soil " on a 
more porous subsoil. 
Since INIr. Smith's entry to the farm, 100 acres of it have 
been drained, 3 feet deep, at distances ranging from 9 to 12 
yards apart, the owner providing the pipes, and the tenant 
paying for labour. 
iNIr. Smith occupies other farms, in extent 570 acres ; and as 
he lives at a distance of 7 miles, he keeps a working bailiff, 
who resides in the farmhouse, and who carries on the work 
under his direction. The ordinary working-staff consists of 
1 bailiff", 2 horsemen, 1 stocksman, 4 ordinary labourers, and 
2 boys, whose weekly wages amount to 4Z. 17s. 6rf. The 
bailiff has free house and fuel found him ; the others make a 
harvest-earning of about 9Z. in four weeks, the boys in propor- 
tion. Women are also occasionally employed, and in busy 
seasons " gangs " can be obtained, this mode of obtaining 
labour being yet existent in Suffolk. The entire labour for the 
year was stated as amounting to 380/. Some considerable 
deduction ought to come off this for the bailifF s time ; but after 
such allowance is made, the cost per acre will be found about 
405., which is very high. 
This farm being in the nature of an accommodation one, the 
number of stock kept on it varies much, being moved to and 
from Mr. Smith's other farms as circumstances require. He 
breeds on those farms most of the stock necessary for the con- 
sumption of produce on this, and has one of the oldest-established 
flocks of the improved breed of Suffolk sheep in the county. 
The following were on the farm at our November and May 
visits : — 
Cattle:— 
Fatting 
XOVEMBEK. 
14 
Sheep : — 
Hoggets 190 
(The farm had kept 169 of 
these for 108 days, they 
having left it to go to 
another on April 8th.) 
Pigs .-— 
Various ages 32 
Horses : — 
Cart-horses 6 
May. 
Cattle : — 
Ked-polled, in-calf, heifers .. 7 
„ heifers, under 2 
years 15 
Bulloclvs, under 2 years . . 7 
Fat bullocks 2 
Sheep : — 
Shearling ewes 
(These Mr. Smith stated 
were here for a short time 
only.) 
Pigs: — 
Various ages 
Horses : — 
Cart-horses 
3] 
100 
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