WAGES. 4-7 



all hard- woods decay, as I was informed, in a 

 few years sufficiently to admit of their being 

 torn out. 



They plough with two horses abreast and 

 it is said a pair of horses generally plough two 

 acres a-day, but the furrow is ebb, not gene- 

 rally more than two or three inches. There 

 are no carts, the agricultural carriage being a 

 light waggon with a pole, drawn by two horses 

 abreast. 



The average rate of labourer's wages is 

 about three shillings of our money per diem 

 with board and lodging. The hours of labour 

 are from sunrise to sunset ; all the crops are 

 mowed, and a man mows of wheat from two to 

 three acres and of red clover when clover hay 

 happens to be made, two acres per diem. 



Colonel Wordsworth's regular establishment 

 consists of twenty men, and this he finds suf- 

 ficient for his large farm ; they are boarded 

 and lodged in a commodious farm-house. He 

 has no difficulty in getting what additional 

 hands are required in harvest time ; and pro- 

 fessional sheep-shearers attend at the proper 



