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Now as to the return, necessarily small, for the first 
year. As I have said, for one rainy season the ground 
should lie fallow ; a few mealies may, indeed, be sown 
broadcast for pigs or cattle to feed off, but no return 
can be expected. Before the next rains the ground 
will be again cross-ploughed, and we would advise, 
should the land be suitable, that it be planted entirely 
with either Rose Coco or Canadian Wonder beans. 
The yield of either variety is up to one ton per acre, 
but as the soil is not yet thoroughly in order we will 
not put the whole crop at more than fifty tons, worth 
on the farm about £7 per ton, or ^350 in all. Let 
the rent be taken at £50, and the net position at the 
end of the year will be as follows : 
The ,£1,200 capital will be reduced to £700, but 
our farmers will be in possession of a house and im¬ 
plements, oxen and buildings, we will hope of some 
twenty or thirty sows and store pigs, and of two hundred 
acres of thoroughly cultivated land, which should be 
safe to produce a net income of £600 per annum. 
The next year should see the addition of perhaps 
another hundred acres of cultivation of at least two 
more teams of oxen, and possibly the nucleus of a 
small herd of cattle. The alternative crop might be 
wheat, maize, peas, lucerne, and possibly ten acres put 
down in black wattle or coffee. At the end of this 
second year a net income for the ensuing year of ,£800 
may be confidently anticipated, and at this point we 
will leave off, I hope well satisfied as to future 
prospects. 
What is the daily life on the ordinary small “ mixed ” 
farm ? The farmer rises with the first streaks of dawn 
and hurries out at six o’clock, when the labourers will 
be mustered and apportioned their allotted task for the 
