Balance-sheet.
| Cr. | Dr. | ||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Produce of cows | 35 | 0 | 0 | Rent and taxes | 12 | 18 | 4 |
| Oats (exclusive of horse feed) | 21 | 0 | 0 | Wages and keep of servant | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Profit on beast sold | 19 | 0 | 0 | Seeds | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Potatoes (5½ tons at £3) | 16 | 10 | 0 | Labour (spring and harvest) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 calves | 9 | 0 | 0 | Hand feed to cows | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| Profit on pigs | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Eggs | 6 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | ||
| £113 | 0 | 0 | £42 | 11 | 4 | ||
| —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— |
Balance.
| Cr. | £113 0 0 |
| Dr. | 42 11 4 |
| ——— | |
| £70 8 8 | |
| ——— |
I (the reporter) asked Hill what wages weekly would have been equal to this. He seemed astonished at such a question, and confessed that no reasonable wages could have placed him in such a comfortable and independent position.
This is a modest affair, and yet the tenant was most contented and happy.
In concluding this section, I must say I would very much like to see in Victoria, a small model farm of say 25 acres of tillage as a dairy farm; everything to be consumed on the farm; that is, all the produce from the land—hay, straw, fodder plants, roots, etc.—and the whole to be under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and the Government Agricultural Chemist, —— Martin, Esq., and everything carried out under an intelligent tenant and his family, and a strict balance-sheet kept.