Calendar of Farming Operations. 



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dairy convenience, of obtaining grains, the amount of com and 

 beans allowed, &c. As a rule one breeding sow to 100 acres, to 

 have two litters a year, will be found sufficient, combined with a due 

 proportion of other stock. 



Estimate of Amount of Men, Horses, Oxen, and Principal Implements 

 required upon a Farm. 



Carts 



Waggons 



Liquid-manuie cart 



Crubher 



Iron rollers 



Horse-hoe 



Ploughs 



Double-niould-board plough 

 Light grass-harrow, or chain"! 



harrow / 



Pairs of heavy harroA\ s 



Chaff cutters 



Turnip cutters 



Horses 



Oxen 



Heaping machine 

 Cultivator and skimmer 



Turnip drill 



Grass-sowing machine 



Corn drill 



Hay-tedding machine . . 



Horse rake 



Turnip scuiBers 



Winnowing machine . . 



Oat crusher 



Oilcake breaker 



Threshino- machine 



Acres — Mixed, Arable, and Pasture, but mainly Arable. 



100 150 



200 



300 



500 



8 or 9 



3 

 1 

 3 

 8 or 9 

 2 teams 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



800* 



10 

 4 teams 



* GOO arable, 200 pasture. 



For a farm of 100 acres of mixed hnsbandr}-, there will be re- 

 quired a ploughman and lad to follow the two teams, the man to 

 clean and feed the horses, when the lad can help in other work ; 

 a man to tend the pigs and cattle ; a labourer-of-all-work to do 

 hedging, &c., and to help generally : in all 4 hands. An amateur 

 farmer who studies neatness regardless of expense woidd require 

 another man. 



For a farm of 300 acres, there are required, a shepherd, a cattle- 

 man who shall also attend the chaffcutter, two ploTighmen and two 

 lads for the teams ; two men for general work : in all 8 hands. 



For 500 acres there will be required a shepherd, two men to attend 

 cattle and chaffcutter through the winter, and for whom abundant 

 summer work may be found on the farm ; three men and three lads 

 for the teams; and three men for general work : in all 12 hands. 



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