Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... should have gone far to establish the opinion that arable farming may still be carried on at a profit. Such a conclusion is scarcely warranted by experience, chiefly because this crop is particularly liable to complete failure, as, for example, was the case SHOULD FARM-YARD MANURE BE CHARGED? 133 so recently as 1887. A heavy crop of roots may be highly profitable, a medium crop may leave the land somewhat in debt, and a failing crop may entail a heavy expenditure. It is therefore impossible to say in the abstract whether roots should be regarded as profitable or the reverse. Another difficulty arises with reference to the estimate put upon the cost of the farm-yard manure. But farm-yard manure is seldom bought, and is made from the straw, hay, and roots, bred on the holding, enriched by cake and purchased corn. If farm-yard manure is valued and charged against the turnip crop, it is only fair to credit back the straw as part of the proceeds of corn-growing, and thus a second fictitious valuation is introduced, as straw is seldom actually sold. It may, indeed, be held that if farm-yard manure is charged against the root crop, the root crop ought to be valued at market price instead of at consuming price. In other words, if the farmer purchases farm-yard manure for his root crop, he might be considered as entitled to sell the crop. We therefore conclude that farm-yard manure should not be valued as a cost against the root crop, but that the labour thereon should be so charged, and in this conclusion we are supported by the usual course of valuations between outgoing and incoming tenants. On this understanding we should be content to value both straw and roots at a consuming price only. The cost of root cultivation varies, first, as between clean and foul lan...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... should have gone far to establish the opinion that arable farming may still be carried on at a profit. Such a conclusion is scarcely warranted by experience, chiefly because this crop is particularly liable to complete failure, as, for example, was the case SHOULD FARM-YARD MANURE BE CHARGED? 133 so recently as 1887. A heavy crop of roots may be highly profitable, a medium crop may leave the land somewhat in debt, and a failing crop may entail a heavy expenditure. It is therefore impossible to say in the abstract whether roots should be regarded as profitable or the reverse. Another difficulty arises with reference to the estimate put upon the cost of the farm-yard manure. But farm-yard manure is seldom bought, and is made from the straw, hay, and roots, bred on the holding, enriched by cake and purchased corn. If farm-yard manure is valued and charged against the turnip crop, it is only fair to credit back the straw as part of the proceeds of corn-growing, and thus a second fictitious valuation is introduced, as straw is seldom actually sold. It may, indeed, be held that if farm-yard manure is charged against the root crop, the root crop ought to be valued at market price instead of at consuming price. In other words, if the farmer purchases farm-yard manure for his root crop, he might be considered as entitled to sell the crop. We therefore conclude that farm-yard manure should not be valued as a cost against the root crop, but that the labour thereon should be so charged, and in this conclusion we are supported by the usual course of valuations between outgoing and incoming tenants. On this understanding we should be content to value both straw and roots at a consuming price only. The cost of root cultivation varies, first, as between clean and foul lan...
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