Does Small Farming Pay?

Evening Star, Issue 8267, 12 July 1890, Page 1 (Supplement)

Does Small Farming Pay?

I'nc ' JVjanr.watn Timeii,' b\ :<. reoi:::i ;.<:,■;:•., gives eevercl instances where aivnu! Jr.'.'inirjg ban paid very well. Our ejuv-r-porary Bays : —"ln one care a / ■ottier* grew 20U tons of potatoes on toven awcF, which realised L2CIO ; while another, fk.;m a r,irgi<-, uorc, got Ll5O wortii of onions. Outsider.! who do not know the extraordinary fertility of the Boil in this district ami )•;.:■. suitability for farming, no dou'.-t find it difficult to believe in t!ie:-:e statements: but they are neve; the.t.es.H facts, as Mr Bu'ck's defcail.s thovv. ArA this district is only just to yield the fruits for years of patient industry and for capital invested in clearing bush, draining, fencing, etc. Iu a very short time the yield will be enormous, and the prosperity of the farmers bo assured, especially Ji'o'.v the means are being provided for dirrc export of fro/en moat to the Ji.o;ne markes." The following details are ;;iveu of thy working expenses of and the receipts from a farm of ninty-oue acre.?, worked by Ml' iSuiek, near i'ahiierfctou : nxi'KNor/rj;; .c F. (i. t 1 ;( o 14.—127 do at BslOrt .. .. C! 710 1!). (il do at 7s .. .. .. ::] 7 0 Co?t of ploiiKhir:; ajpe ne ■va~ orn- in::. :.> 23s |:« wc. 1. .. .. n 0 O B('<(loats .. .. .. ] jo o ) ! cipinc[ find binding .. .. <t 10 (» Extra labor at harvont .. .. ! I'2 0 Tlircehing .'j£C bUFbcl.i .. .. -1 ](i 0 Roy njinding c:;ws (an! Kenorally n°cful about house, not included) at bi |ir week (23 week:-) ._ .. .. fi 4 o Youth eight weeks at 17s CJ .. .. 7 0 0 Shearing 41S sheep ~ 4 18 0 JUIM 19 4 HEtKII'TS. . r , X s. d. ii>2 Phcop S;:nt fcr freezing Jammr :;1 average weight fifjlb and Sib fat, "estimated net return 123 .. .. lif, 0 O I Balance removed from farm March Bfl.j 120 eeut for freezing April 10, cßtimateU .. 7.1 12 O Balance l'.O fat vvfthera (not Hold)' .. 78 0 0 Wool a' Id in Wellington, net return of .. Ml s!> 388 buehol3 oats at Is 6d (not enldj 2a 37 8 4S calves reared by sucking 21 cows or, said 91 acres, valued at 12s Cd.. .. 23 \u 0" :;sr, l <* Expenditure .. .. .. 195 If) -SEalanee in favor of farm .. .. .CIH) 2 6 Mr Btxick adds:—"Li addition to the above there, had been grazing on the farm five young horses, which more"tha.ii balances the value of the work of mv horses and implements at ploughing and harvest. This leaves a net balance in favor of the farm foithc period of eight months ending March 2(7 of LlB9 2a sd, or nearly L2 2s per acre. The remainder of the year would be difficult to. estimate, as the ninety-one acres are mostlyused as a receivine; paddock for the larger farm, But the above figures are quit© correct for the stated time, and if the remaining four months give as good returns it will give interest at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum on L3O per acre. And, if you remember, the statement was first made (without any view to publication) in ao argument as to the real value of land in thu» district,"