Farmer and stockbreeder . dvertiseyour wish to go with a well-educated farmer farm-ing a, mixe<l farm of 3(X) to 500 acres well, ami maketho best terms you can, remembering mon(!y spentwell in this way is well-laid-out capital. After beingon tho land some time you will see in which wayyour bent lies, and then you will be able to answermost of tho questions you put. You have a niceworking capital for renting up to about 120 acrescomfortably and well, but not enough to buy. Lightto medium soils in Bods, Herts, Cambs give goodopportunities for mixed farming. If you do nottake to mixed farming,
Farmer and stockbreeder . dvertiseyour wish to go with a well-educated farmer farm-ing a, mixe<l farm of 3(X) to 500 acres well, ami maketho best terms you can, remembering mon(!y spentwell in this way is well-laid-out capital. After beingon tho land some time you will see in which wayyour bent lies, and then you will be able to answermost of tho questions you put. You have a niceworking capital for renting up to about 120 acrescomfortably and well, but not enough to buy. Lightto medium soils in Bods, Herts, Cambs give goodopportunities for mixed farming. If you do nottake to mixed farming, grass-land counties wouldsuit you.—W. J. M. LIMING (W. M.).—Yoti would need six tons anacre of the lime you jncntion, or two tons of freShlyground burned lime, an acre.—W. J. M. MANURING (P. W. T.).—All the land needsliming heavily; and you will meet with poor successuntil you do it. Although you say No. 1 is a gooddry soil, the weeds you mention unmistakably indi-cate that there ie need of drainage, and the land. Photo by] Dairy saonnorn Bull, ? AVISFORD B-iRRINQTON DUKE [ at Royal of SIR R. C. GARTON, LYTHE HILL, HASLEMERE, SURREY. but at any rate you will get a working basis. With-in the last three years I have discussed this matterat length over a considerable period with one of thegicatest costing experts in the world, who contendedthat it would be as easy to do it in respect to thefarm to anything else. He had two years experi-ence of land matters, and then the sameopinion, provided a margin of error of 40 per cent,•was permitted, but not without. The fact ihat somany factors are unstable—whether it be climate,animak!, or one of many others—makes for greatvariation. However, everyone who, like yourself,earnestly tries to solve problems is able to iwld somelittle sheaf to the stack of exaet information whichmay tend to a closer accUracy than is obtainable atpresent.—W. J. M. FARMING (F. C. B., .Subscriber).—Probab
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