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enable me to givt; an answer. The horse-labour rccjuired lor 

 200 acres of wheat, oats, and barley would be as follows : — 



Leading the corn in harvest, and delivery at market must be 

 added. 



The total number of days' work for one horse is just 1000. 

 Now 12 horses are not an excessive force upon oOO acres arable, 

 and at 240 days' work each, they do 2880 days' work in a year ; 

 so that the stripe-cropping^ would occupy a normal force of horses 

 little more than a third of their time throughout a year. Looking 

 at the various months, it appears that the stripe-croj)ping would 

 demand team-labour for only 5 days in August, during half of 

 September and October, half of ])ecember, one-third of February 

 and March, a third of April and May, and half of June. This 

 would leave ample time for the tillage of the various crops upon 

 the 100 acres ; seeing, moreover, that these crops would take 

 much less labour than if ordinary fallowing and cleaning had to 

 be pursued in preparing secd-l)eds for them. 



As I have supposed barley and oats in stripes to be substituted 

 for the first year's wheat on portions of the land, I will justify 

 my expectation that this would answer as well as the wheat. jMr. 

 Smith is growing these crops on the stripe principle at Lois- 

 Weedon, the triple rows standing at every 5 feet (as the wheat- 

 rows do), but the spaces reduced to i) inches each, leaving 42 

 inches for the fallow interval. After highly-manured carrots and 



