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ROYAL COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURE. 



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27 Auyutt, 1919.] 



Mit. THOMAS 0. GOODWIN. 



[Cuntimttd. 



Table No. 7. 



C'o*< ;r <icrr of growing Oatt, 1919. 

 OaU after Root*. 



Rent and rates 

 Ploughing 

 Harrowing (twice) 



Drilling 



Harrowing and rolling 



Seed (5 bus.) 



Weeding 



Harvesting ... ... ... ... ... - 



Threshing ... ... ... ... ... "2 



Marketing 15 



8. d. 

 2 10 3 



1 10 



8 



5 



ii : 



2 16 



1 







10 

 



Add mammal residue 



13 4 

 1 1 



14 5 3 



P.8. If grown after clover ley the cost per acre 

 would be reduced 20s. j>er acre. 



Table No. 8. 



Co$t of growing Clover Hay, 1916. 



Seeds for 1 or 2 years' ley 



Sowing, harrowing and rolling 



Cutting and harvesting 



Artificial manure, 5 cwt. superphosphate, 

 1 sulphate of ammonia (including sow- 

 ing) 160 



Rent, rates 180 



s. d. 



i:. o 

 030 



1 5 



4 17 



Table No. 9. 



Coit per acre of growing Clover, 1919. 



Seeds 1 or 2 years! ley 



Sowing, harrowing and rolling 



Artificial manures and sowing 5 cwt. 



superphosphate and 1 cwt. sulphate of 



ammonia 



Cutting and harvesting 

 Rant and rates 





 3 

 



s. d. 

 

 8 6 



'2 I.'. 

 3 

 2 10 



11 13 9 



Table No. 10. 



Coti per acre of groiriny M-im/ulils, 1915. 

 Stoke Grange - 30 acres. 



s. .1. 



Rent and rates 180 



Ploughing out of stubble (autumn) ... 12 



Manure (20 tons per acre at 5s.)... ... 500 



Carting and spreading 150 



Cross-ploughing ... ... 12 



Harrowing (twice) ... ... ... ... .'t <i 



Cultivating (twice) 090 



II arrowing (once) ... ... ... ... 015 



Rolling (twice) 



Drilling 



Artificial Manure* and Sowing. 

 5 owt. superphosphate and I cwt. Milphnte 

 of iimnioma 



Seed (1011, t<- acre at I- i 



K 

 Rolling 



'lin^ (sidc-hoeing) 



Ilini; (twine) ... 



Hooing and thinning ... 



Top (lr.vv.Mnu (1 cwt. sulphate of ammonia) 

 Topping nn<\ tailing, loading nnd hmlding 

 ('rting to hod 



manurinl residue left for corn crop 



d ID 

 020 

 020 

 (i :i o 

 n r, o 

 15 



n o 



1 o o 

 i 5 o 



15 18 



1 



14 18 



Oot of growing a crop of ftwndea on name basis as 

 abnre would be about 4 8it. per ncre leas. 



Table No. 11. 



Cost ptr acre of growing Hanyolds, 



l! nt* and rates 



Houghing out of stubble (autumn) 



in (.spring) 

 Bamwiag (twioe) 

 Cultivating (twice) 

 Harrowing (twice) 

 Hulling (twice) 

 Drilling 



Manure, 'JO tons at 15s 



C'aiung and spreading 



Artificials, 5 cwt. superphosphate, 1 uwt. 



sulphate 



Sowing 



Seed, 10 Ib. per acre at 3s. ... 



Sou ing ... 



(tolling ... 



Scuffling and side hoeing 



'iling (twice) 

 Hoeing and thinning 

 Top dress, 1 cwt. sulphate of ammonia and 



sowing ... ... ... 



Topping and tailing ... 

 Carting to hod 

 Hodding and strawiug 



42 8 9 

 Less manurial residue left for corn crop ... Ill) 



41 7 9 



P.S. Cost of growing crop of swedes on same basis 

 would be about 10 per acre less than above. 

 |T/iis concludes the < ridtncr-in-rhief.'] 



6123. The Chairman: I will ask Mr. Walker to com- 

 mence the questions to you on your i v.dci 

 chief? Before you proceed to do that might I call 

 your attention to one or two slight mistakes in the 

 figures in the statement I have handed to you: 1 



6124. Certainly!' In paragraph (d) you will liiul 

 tin- cost of growing oats per acre in 1 91!) stands 



Hi 4s. 3d. You will find, according to the 

 detailed costs in Table No. 7, that it should be 

 I'll 5s. 3d. Then, again, under the heading of 

 " Mangolds. 1919 " it should be 41 7s. 9d. where you 

 huvo got 42 8s. 9d. You will find that borne out by 

 the detailed costs. The same applies in the case of 

 MI i -iles: it should be 31 7s. 9d. where you have got 

 32 8s. 9d. 



0125. Mr. Walker: Of course you are a farmer? 

 Yes 



6126. How many acres do you farm? 300 acre at 

 the present time. 



i;i-T. You are a tenant farmer I take it? I am 

 ouner .-Hid occupier. 



<il:K Would you l.riolly explain and define a policy 

 that would be " fair to all concerned." Those are 

 your words in paragraph (a). Would you define what 

 you consider to bo a fair j>olicy to all concerned? By 

 that I mean a fair price to the producer and also 

 a fair price to the consumer. 



6129. .That does not take us far BO far as a policy is 

 concerned. What would you suggest to secure that 

 which you have just mentioned ae a policy? If you 

 go a little further on you will find that ns far a* 

 fanners are concerned I strongly favour a strong oo- 

 opi-rativc movement 



6130. We will come to that in a moment. What 

 is tho ]K>lioy you have at ihe back of your mind that 

 \on mention here!- W T lmt I am aiming at thero is 

 securing the fixing of prices and I take it that is 

 the chief object which is in view on such a basis 

 that will allow to the producer and the workers em- 

 ployed a fair return for the-ir energy and labour and 

 capital, and nUo what will In- fair' to the man who 



consume the produce. I tliink it. is obvious to 

 anyone reading the paragraph that that is the inten- 

 tion. 



6131. You are a dairy farmer, I take, it? Yes. at 

 the p recent time, Fnit 'i hnve had considerable e>- 



i nil classes of farming. Up to the year 



I was a very largo proeluc-er of milk nn a mixed 



farm. Then 1 farmed a largie arable farm of 764 acres. 



with 440 acres on the plough. I was turned out of 



