Management of a Suburban Farm. 
Brought forward £300 
Profit on 65 qrs. at 55s. average price (nearly) .. £180 
Add 8 tons of wheat-straw 20 
200 
Produce of 8 acres of barley additional =40 qrs., 37s. 75 
Potatoes or roots sold, say 5 acres net 50 
Hay sold, say 10 tons only 50 
575 
Deductions. — Extra rates £50 
Do. cost of labour 100 
Manure purchased 50 
200 
Leaving as clear profit of suburban farm over the 
same under the usual management £375 
In order not to burden the above account with any unnecessary 
figures, I have omitted all mention of profit from sheep or pigs, 
which in my case is pretty much the same as in that of other 
people. I fat off about 100 pigs and wethers, and lamb down 
100 ewes, which are sold with their lambs in the spring. The 
28 acres of roots which enable me to keep this stock, besides 
supplying some 500 tons of mangolds, turnips, tScc, to my 30 
cows, manifestly give as good a return as 50 acres of fallow- 
crops under ordinary management. 
I come now to the deductions, with which I have debited the 
account. I find the general rateable value of a farm situate as 
mine is to be about 1/. per acre more than if it were away from 
the town, and the rates, including a borough-rate instead of 
county-rate, to be somewhat higher ; I have, therefore, deducted 
50/. on that head. I find, too, the labour-bill is large. House- 
rent near towns is very high. Common labourers, through the 
summer, can get their half-crown or more per day, and conse- 
quently will not work at farmers' prices, even for constant em- 
ployment. There is also a little more expense incurred in 
mending fences, bird-keeping, &c. The 50/. worth of ashes, 
&c, is as much as we have time to cart home in the course of the 
winter. After making these necessary allowances, the handsome 
balance of 375/., or nearly 21. per acre, remains to be divided 
between the landlord and the tenant. I have obtained this 
result now for a series of years with great regularity ; indeed 
there is very little difference in the amount of the corn-crop 
between good years and bad years. 
In comparing this system with others that have been recom- 
mended, I am convinced there is none more profitable, more 
easily adapted to all circumstances of soils, seasons, or markets. 
If two successive corn-crops to one root-crop be thought too 
scourging, nevertheless my experience tells me, that with thorough 
