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A FARMER'S EVERY DAY LIFE, 
f i> y CoamupolUc. J 
No. V. 
The fu .st gveut step tiuit has to lie taken, 
when about to couiiiience a faiiuui^ life, is to 
be sure that you liave succeeded in leasing 
the sort of farm you wish tor, au;l tliai you 
have it at 
A FAJR BENT. 
Wlien a farm comes into the market, 
now a-days many outsiders entei- the 
list of competitoi's for it, and such men 
as retired merchants and Ceylon jilant- 
ers, having no idea of tlie \'alue of land, bnt 
only wishing to procure a home in the coun- 
try for themselves, offer a much higher rent 
than a practical farmer ^\■ould care to give, 
and so rents have been forced up to such an ' 
extent that I know several cases of profes- ' 
sional farmers who are paying more vent 
for their farms than they consider them to 
be vvoi-tli, simply because they feared to he 
left out in the cold, v.'ithout a farm at all. 
I have seen the whole of the best land in 
Scotland, from the Howe o'Bachan to that 
wonderful pear garden, formerly theproijerty 
of the monks of Jedbui'gh. and said to be the 
richest piece of soil in the w'hole of Great 
Britain, but there is not an acre of it that I 
would be inclined to give more than £1 a year 
of rent for, so long as I know that there are 
millions of aci'es, of far better land th.in any- 
thing that wo have in this country, lying 
idle at the antipodes— land which is waiting 
to be purchased right out by any one, at a 
Erice varying from 5s to £2 an acre. It may 
e said that these acres lie too far from a 
market, but to that I reply that such is not 
the case, for the market of London is the 
market of the world, and thanks to steam, 
low freights and this ]5arental Government 
of ours, which, to the best of its ability, fos- 
ters and encourages foreign agriculturists, 
whilst it tries in every way to discourage the 
native producer. The grain and mutton grown 
in Australia can be laid down at a cheaper 
rate, in London, than the same commodities 
can be which have been gi'own on the farms 
of Aberdeenshire. I make, of coui'se, excep- 
tions in the cases of 
FARMS CLOSE TO TOAVNS, 
which can be utilized for dairy purposes and 
market gardening, and our merely referring 
to such as lie some miles from any town or 
village, and which would likely be taken on 
lease" by retired Bast Indians. I have no 
hesitation, therefore, in stating that, for stvch 
a farm, a rent of £1 an acre, per jinnum, is the • 
highest that anyone should pay, and expect 
to hold his own. or perhaps make a little 
profit, and this, I may ronark, is the figure 
I pay for my own farm. One thing however 
I would caution an amateui farmer against, 
and that is— taking a farm because it is low 
rented. For example ; I know one man, afar 
from jiractical farmer, who had leased a 
place at 25s an acre, but found, \n the course 
of a few years, that lie was losing money, so, 
having succeeded in lueaking his lease, he 
went to the other extreme and rented one ab 
lis ; hxit the farm he threw up used to give 
him six quvU'ters of oats to the acre, 
