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accounts. Mr. Lane was kind enough to furnish us with very 
ample particulars for the last four years, and to give us every 
information which we desired. We were, therefore, left in no 
doubt of the profitable character of his management, of which, 
however, after an inspection of his farm, there could be little 
question. 
From the accounts we learned that the average value (for the 
last four years) of meat and wool produced on the farm has 
been 3/. 3*. an acre, reckoned on the whole area of the farm. 
It must be borne in mind, in considering these figures, that Mr. 
Lane's is very high rented land, and that his object is, therefore, 
to " make the farm support itself " as much as possible. His 
outlay in cakes and feeding-stuffs is therefore an extremely 
moderate one. A comparison must not be drawn between land 
on which a very large outlay in stock-food is absolutely required 
to make it productive, and this, in which such extra outlay may 
be said to go in the shape of rent. Here is land which is let 
at a price which would be looked upon as excessive in some 
parts of England, because, to use a common phrase, " it will 
grow anything." Swedes, mangolds, wheat, barley, beans, peas, 
nothing comes amiss to it ; and although it undoubtedly requires 
good farming, such an outlay as in Norfolk would be profitable, 
would here be ruinous. The figures, thei'efore, must be con- 
sidered in connection with the cake bills ; and when it is remem- 
bered that hay and clover are often sold in sufficient quantity 
to pay the whole of these, it must, I think, be admitted, that 
in the most important matter of the present day, viz., the pro- 
duction of meat, i\Ir. Lane takes a very satisfactory position. 
In concluding the Report on this farm, I cannot help men- 
tioning the great help which Mr. Lane receives from his two 
sons, Mr. Arthur Lane and Mr. Douglas Lane, who are at present 
his assistants in the business. The most important operations 
of the farm had been most skilfully directed, and in some cases 
performed by them, and it was a pleasure to the Judges to 
receive the intelligent explanations, which they were always 
ready to offer, of each particular of the farm practice. Mr. 
Lane's is no ordinary farm, and careless indeed must be the 
man who does not carry awaj" some useful lessons and some 
thoughtful reflections from its survey. Although in point of 
cleanliness it hardly reached the high standard attained by Mr, 
Stilgoe, or the still greater perfection of Mr. Adkins' occupation, 
and is therefore less fitted to undergo the prying researches which 
it was our duty to carry out ; and although in some other matters 
it fell, in our opinion, somewhat below the First Prize Farm 
in merit, in all the essentials of profitable farming it must be 
admitted to a very high rank. Without interfering Avith a course 
