HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. 419 



£. s. d. 



To scarifying 11 acres, or 15 poles of ground, when 



covered with turf cut in pieces, at 2s. 6d. per acre - 1 7 8| 



To labourers, filling, cutting, spreading, and planting 

 the turf on 11 acres, or 15 poles of land, at 30s. per 

 acre - - - - ■ -16 12 yj 



£27 6 4 



Total expense per acre - £2 9 2| 



Mr. Blakie observes, that in the foregoing estimate there is no 

 allowance made for the expenses incurred by the clear out-sum- 

 mer fallow of the arable land, nor of the year's rent, poors' rates, 

 and taxes for that year; neither is there any charge made for 

 restoring the land to its previous state from whence the turf- 

 plants were taken : consequently there may be a very consider- 

 able additional charge made against the transplanted pasture. 



Mr. Whitworth states the expense of the operative part of this 

 process, per acre, to be 21. 4s., and gives the following details 

 from his own minutes on the business. About 180 sods, of nine 

 square inches, will be equal to one bushel measure, and 240 

 bushels will be equal to eight cart-loads, which, at the rate of 

 about nine sods to a square yard, will plant one acre of land. A 

 man will cut with ease one bushel of sods in eight minutes ; and 

 two children in twelve minutes will gather them, put them into 

 the cart, and assist him to plant that quantity ; the whole time 

 being twenty minutes. The planting will be at the rate of three 

 bushels per hour, consequently, the day of ten hours will plant 

 thirty bushels, and eight days will finish one acre. 



£. s. d. 

 One man eight days, at 2s. per day - - - 16 



Two children eight days, at Qd. per day - - 8 



Carting turf, if near at hand - - - -0100 



Total per acre - £1 14 



But should the turf for transplanting have to be carted from a 

 distance, the expense would be proportionally increased. 



Having had an opportunity of examining some pasture-land on 

 the Duke of Bedford's estates, near Endsleigh, Devonshire, which. 



