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the amount of capital that will be required to stock this farm properly 
under the following heads, viz. : — 
1. Compensation to be paid to the outgoing tenant for hay, young 
seeds, roots, &c. 
2. One year's rent. 
3. One year's labour. 
4. Live and dead stock. 
5. One year's artificial manure and feeding stuffs. 
6. Cost of horse keep, seeds, tradesmen's bills, and sundries. 
8. Having ascertained the expenditure under the foregoing heads, 
state the amount to be received during the fijst year from sales of fat 
stock, &c., and after deducting this sum from the total outlay, state 
the amount of capital required to take the farm. 
9. State the respective costs of preparing land for wheat and oats 
on average loam land, the yield and profit per acre you would expect 
from each crop, and the extent to which present market prices would 
modify your preference for either cereal. 
10. Arrange in order of their manurial value the following feeding 
stuffs : malt, malt-dust, barley, clover, hay, potatoes, beans, undecor- 
ticated cotton-cake, Indian meal, and mangold wurtzel ; and state the 
money value of the manure from five tons each of linseed and decorti- 
cated cotton-cake respectively. 
11. Under the foiu- course rotation of cropping it is well known 
that red clover generally fails if sown once in four years. Suggest 
the best remedy for this by the substitution of other clovers or grasses 
which would make an equally good preparation for wheat upon light 
land. 
12. How do you account for the Shropshire Downs gradually 
gaining ground in the Midland and West-Midland Counties, and what 
advantages have they over the South and Hampshire Downs and 
white-faced breeds ? 
13. What is a fair calculation to make of the cost of horse-labour 
per acre on a mixed soil arable farm of 500 acres ? State the number 
of horses required to work the farm, and tabulate the cost under the 
following heads, viz : — 
Death, risk, and depreciation. 
Forty weeks' corn, chaff, hay, &c. 
Twelve weeks' com, green food, &c. 
Shoeing, Veterinary, &c. 
14. State the cost of growing a crop of Swedes on a medium 
soil, and give the separate items of cost in detail thus : — 
1. Team work. 
2. Manual labour. 
2. Artificial manure and seed. 
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