especially in Surrey and Sussex. 
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the same clieap rate. These sheds all stand on strong posts, 
they are all well tied, the sides well stuffed with warm furze 
or heather, the roofs well thatched with straw. The skeleton 
of the buildings consists partly of deal, cut to the required 
scantlings at a metropolitan saw-mill, and generally of poles, 
purchased at the wood sales in the neighbourhood. They 
have stood out the recent gales on an exposed coast, and still 
promise to stand for many years. But if a master-builder or 
carpenter had been called in to put up these buildings, almost 
every bit of their material would have been rejected. There 
would have been sawing and planing and morticing on the spot ; 
bricks, tiles, and lime, and artisans at &d. an hour. This is all 
very good when the work is well organised and on a sufficiently- 
large scale, and when the buildings are such as a landlord 
requires on his own fee-simple. But a tenant must be his own 
builder. 
Mr. Stanford's buildings were erected by his foreman, who 
happened to be a clever self-taught carpenter. On every bit of 
wall he has put up a home-made shed, converting several yards, 
which were too cold for young stock or for fatting animals, into 
snug and populous quarters, full of life, industry, and manure- 
making, and completely sheltered from wind and wet. This 
was done by means of sheds made of stout Scotch fir-poles, tied 
with the bolts and irons of an old threshing-machine. The 
sheds are 16 feet deep, and are topped by roofs of furze, thatched 
by wheat-straw, at 15c?. per square. As they are not built into 
the brickwork, they remain the properly of the tenant, and for 
thirty years to come the thatched sheds which the foreman and 
farm carpenter built seven years since, at the cost of a few 
pounds, may still be filled with cattle at various stages, pro- 
vided the buildings are occasionally, and in good time, retouched 
and restored. 
I now come to the question of profit. 
At the recent sale at Charlton Court the followinsr were the 
prices and returns per week of the young bullocks, the top price 
of beef at that time being 6s. 2d. per stone, according to the 
quotations at the next metropolitan market : — 
Return per Week. 
11 months old Shorthorn steer 16 7 0 
13 „ „ steer 22 8 3 
14: „ „ heifer 20 7 0 
15 „ „ heifer 22 7 1 
16 „ steer 27i 8 4 
18 „ steer 25 6 9 
I85 „ „ steer 28 7 4 
There were several other beasts sold at prices nearly equal to 
the above, and included in the following analysis of results : 
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