Typical Farms in East Anglia. 
521 
There is a proportion of good grass land, perhaps 200 acres, another 100 
acres of fair grass, and some 1,800 acres of poor sheep walk. The entire 
holding is over 2,800 acres in extent, and the present tenants came into 
possession at Michaelmas, 1891, under an eight years’ lease. The conditions 
under which they farm are liberal, free sale of produce being allowed for 
the first seven years, and freedom of cropping for the first six. 
The following table gives the extent, rent, labour, &c. : — 
Arable 
Grass and sheep 
walk 
Rent 
acres 
acres 
£ s. 
d. 
710 
2119 
650 0 
0 
Rates 
£ s. 
98 3 
Labour 
d. 
11 
£ 
1132 
s. 
0 
d. 
0 
No artificial manures are used, and no statement was made as to 
amount expended on cakes, meals, &c. The impression given was that, in 
the matter of feeding-stuffs, the farm was self-sustaining. 
Although there is a considerable extent of light land, part of it 
very poor sand, there are two to three hundred acres of good soil on the 
lower part of the farm, where splendid crops of all sorts were being grown. 
Part of the good grass land is mown every year, .and a portion of the 
marshes is grazed or mown, as circumstances require. Some of the low- 
lying land adjoining the marshes is being sown down to grass, the landlord 
providing seeds but stipulating that such fields shall not be ploughed out. 
The tenants are also sowing down part of the wheat-growing land at 
their own expense. Some fields formerly sown down, but full of weeds, are 
being ploughed up to be bare fallowed, cleaned, and sown away again. 
A large quantity of hay is made, and during my visit a stack of superior 
clover hay was being delivered, having been sold at 61. 10s. per ton. There 
is a wharf on the farm and a road was being made to it, good material being 
plentiful on the higher portion of the farm. 
There were on the farm 
50 horses. I 1000 sheep and lambs. 
60 cattle. | And 250 pigs. 
Good heavy horses are bred, and at two years of age they are worked 
half time, and go into the regular teams at three. This allows a draft of 
seasoned horses to be sold annually. 
With the exception of a few cows the whole of the cattle were being 
fed in boxes on mangel, hay, and meal. About 100 cattle are annually 
brought in and fed in well-arranged comfortable boxes. 
The sheep stock receive great attention. The ewes, all pure-bred 
Suffolks, are put to high class Suffolk rams. At the time of my visit the 
lambs were being fed on mustard, while the ewes were drawn off daily to 
range on the poorer lands. A flock of shearling sheep were being fed on 
lupins in one of the light sandy fields, as a preparation for turnips to be 
sown on the flat. 
Pigs are bred and fed on the farm, an outlying set of farm buildings 
being entirely taken up with this stock, which the tenants hold is a paying 
one, although no figures were given. 
Considering the extent of this holding and the fact that there is a large 
breadth of really good land, the rent may seem an easy one, but it must be 
borne in mind that the game belongs to the landlord, the farm having been 
taken with a clear understanding on this point. 
