1920.'] IMPLEMENTAL TILLAGE AT ST. AUGUSTINE. 2T 



If oxen had been used for diilling with No. 9 or 12 j^longh it 

 would have cost and taken the following number of labourers and 

 animals. 



The cost and number of labourers required per acre to prepare the 

 above 10 acres by hand labour alone is given below. 



Description of work. 



Banking lengthways 3 banks to a bed = 6, 000 feet 

 ot banks at 15 cents per 100 feet 



Forking bottom of drills, 4 to a bed = 8,C00 feet 

 of drills »t 4 cents per 140 teet 



Total per acre 



Labourers. 



Cost. 



From the above tables it will be seen that when drilling is done with 

 mules it takes 3-76 labourers and costs $3.32 less than with oxen. 



