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Management of a Home Farm. 
first the amounts which belong to the " weekly account," and the 
remainder belongs to the farm cash account. The joint balances, 
or difference betwixt a balance on the one and a deficiency on 
the other, should coiTespond with the balance on private account. 
Of course the items in said Journal will have been transferred 
from a pocket memorandum book, according to the order of 
occurrence. A herd book for detailed entries respecting the 
breeding stock should not be overlooked. 
7. Influence of sucn Farms. 
The influence exerted on the neighbourhood at large depends 
greatly upon the nature of the management pursued. In some 
narrow minds there is a lurking prejudice which manifests itself 
in this wise : " Ah, it may do very well for his Lordship, but 
if there were a rent to pay, things would not be done quite 
in that fashion." If such a spirit is to be deprecated, neither 
should frequent occasion be given for its manifestation ; still, 
where improvements are steadily pursued, and most new plans 
get a trial, failures must now and then occur ; but failure often 
reads us as useful a lesson as success can ever do. If then an 
open, generous spirit pervades the whole, which conceals nothing 
but welcomes truth in whatever garb, it may surely disregard 
cavilling of the sort alluded to, at an occasional mischance. If 
the landlord's management be not exactly a pattern for his 
tenantry, yet its influence may be none the less useful or de- 
sirable. 
But a much more tangible influence is exerted, where a tho- 
roughbred bull, or stallion, is kept not only for the use of the 
home-farm, but for the benefit of the tenantry as well. If pure- 
bred bull-calves are also disposed of to those on the property, at 
reasonable prices, material improvement in the stock may be 
expected. In like manner, select varieties of seed-corn, clccui and 
true, may be disseminated with much advantage. 
Great difference of opinion exists as to whether landlord and 
tenant should come into competition together at district agricul- 
tural associations. It is contended, on the one hand, that the 
former from their larger means have an unfair advantage over 
the other class as competitors. These objectors seem to overlook 
the simple fact that tenants take fully as many prizes as landlords 
have ever done. Rather, then, let this honourable rivalry continue. 
Upon the labourers of the district, a material effect for good 
or evil may be produced by the manner in which such farms are 
conducted. If wages are higher than in the locality generally — 
which is often the case — there will be little difficulty in obtaining 
the best hands for constant employment, and if both good morals 
and expert workmanship be fairly recognised, a staff of men may 
be raised up, of whom the employer may well be proud. Oppor- 
