A SMALL FARM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9064, 3 February 1908, Page 3

A SMALL FARM.

nrsvr F Darke, of Church -street, Victoria, owns about two fi from which he sold last year Mir valued at £936 6s Bd, poultry fojff and fruit £8 2s 6d. or a P. 1 ! nntout of £ll7 ,12s sd. His (cenditore comprised £ls worth of stuff, and £2 on casual labour, L°ci7 The profit on the working : Ule'two acres was thm> £loo,lßs TTie tWO acres are subdivided into ■ a mall paddocks. Half an acre 'occop ed with fruit trees between hS fodder crops are raised. These fir comprise maize, sorghum, bar- ? oats, and tares or mixed oats % har ie V , mangolds, sugar beet, itatoes, and vegetables. There are plots of clover prairie asi and English grasses, but Mr frke says that a combination of Sev sown with? oats or tares proices a heavier forage crop than anyS else for early consumption ground is heavily manured, and iter, is laid on. Three cows are nked the Ayrshire and Jersey ■2ns being preferred. They were trchased for £lO, and each is in ofit for 10 months of the year. The ilk is sold for 4d a quart. Upids of 100 fowls are kept comising Brown Leghorns, Buff Oragtons, and Langshans. The birds e carefully tendered, and their “nines help mater lally to fertilise Slfferm. Tto return of «21 3d was from eggs and young stock Id The fruit crops did not Serially add to the gross receipts, t here, as with the poultry and in getables the house was supplied.