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of wheat and four quarter* of oats are taken from 

 actual facts? Yes, but not absolutely. Ot a 

 we took our own farm into consideration. I had a 

 Committee of threv other* who hcl|>cd mo to fill in 

 the**, and w<> took what wo thought was a fair 

 average for Cleveland. Wo took our own farms into 

 ooaaiaeraUoo, tli crojw no had actually got, and what 

 wa* a fair average for Cleveland. 



oOSKi. What do you grow in barley!' You do not 

 . IViMiii.illv. 1 grow very little of barley. 

 Our land is more suitable for wheat and oate. 



6091. What i the usual yield of barley in your 

 neighbourhood? I havo never been able to grow moro 

 than about four quarters of bar! 



50B2. That is your outside crop? Yes. 



5003. Yours are. all Lady Day tenancies in York- 

 shire, are not they? Not Lady Day; it is May l.'Uh 

 in our district. 



004. Is it your ruxtom in your country always to 

 put farmyard manure on your fallows for wheat? 

 Yes, I think it is. 



50ft). A general custom? Yes. 



5090. In nvkoning out these costs what did you 

 put your horse labour cost at per day? I think 

 about 7s. 6d. or 8s. 



6097. Mr. Balrhrltn : Will you look at paragraph 8, 

 your cost of production of turnips. You have been 

 asked ulready on the question of farmyard manure. 

 How is that manure made? Is it from cattle, or bow!' 

 - It is made principally from cattle and, of course. 

 horses a few farm horses. 



5098. If you did not charge that farmyard manure 



r'nst the turnips, where could you charge ill- 

 would charge it to the succeeding crop, I suppose. 

 6099. It musA be charged against crops P Yes, I 

 take it so. 



5100. So you consider that you are quite right in 

 putting it down here to the crop to which it was 

 applied? Yes. I said in the potato crop that a 

 i .-i tain proportion of the manure should go to the suc- 

 ceeding crop, and I think the same with regard to 

 turnips. 



5101. What about the spreading of that manure: 1 

 Is that included in the 10s. per ton, because it does 

 not appear otherwise in the cost of growing turnips? 

 It appears under potatoes as an entry? In many 

 cases there is not any spreading except the carting to 

 the field. In our district it is thrown on the land from 

 tli<> cart and ploughed in; with potatoes we spread it 

 in the row. 



5102. Then coming to potatoes, you have there IX) 

 loads of farmyard manure at 10s. Does that include 

 the carting on to the field? I think it did, I do 

 not think we charge for carting. 



6103. Then when you come toithe marketing of your 

 potatoes, what does that term include, " marketing 

 36*."? Carting to the station and so forth. 



5104. 5s. a ton? Yes. 



6105. Then your deduction there in respect of 

 manure would be something like 4, being 4 Os. 6d.. 

 which you mention in the next item of growing wheat 

 after potatoes? That is so. 



6106. Is five tons per acre about your average yield 

 of potatoes? Yes, I think so. 



6107. Kven with 20 loads of farmyard manure? I 

 think it would be too much this time. 



6108. I quite admit that. but taking it. on the 

 average?- Yes, I think it is an average for Cleve- 

 land. 



MOO. Is this a clerical error? You have here under 

 cost of one acre of oat: rent and rates 1 10s. In 

 II the other* it appears as 1 15s. It is the same 

 nme?- We took it on the fallow land that 

 was in the four course system : and on the four course 

 VV-trm we reckon all the land at 30s. an acre, mid 

 the ont nre on tin- four course system aft. i 



1 And v.ni alno take the wheat alter fallow at 

 1 10. and <hf others at ft l.V \ 



Mil Mr. I'nnllr,,; I),, I understand that 

 (nrw were -.ettlwl l.y a Committee appointed by the 

 florrlnnd Chamber of Agriculture? Jt is a C-om- 

 " appoint ,t mo in drawing up these. 



They nre a grew) by all of y. 



""' ' ' '". '- llie land strung lund do von 



niostlv in Cleveland 



5114. Do you plough with two horses or three? 



:h.- ln'st time. 



Ml"' Let us take the cost of the acre of wheat 

 which is of most interest to mo. What did your 

 iltural Committee charge for ploughing? You 

 mean witli a tractor? 



5110. Yes. Take a tractor, if you like, or with 

 bones!' I am Mire 1 cannot say. I did not have any 

 done with that; but it was certainly more than we 

 charged. 



.Ml 7. Kxactly. That is what I want to know. It 

 was a great deal more, was not it? Yes. 



.Ml-. Are not they charging 30s. and 32s. 2d. an 

 Yes. they would be, quite. 



.M l!i. Why do you put it at 25s.? We think we can 

 do it cheaper than they can. 



.M .'<. You have told me three horses. How can you 

 plough an acre of land with thrc-e horses for 25s. ? We 

 took the four times ploughing when we charged 25s., 

 and it is only in the case of ploughing for fallow that 

 we use three horses. 



6121. We are dealing with fallows now? We 

 thought, seeing that the other three times we ploughed 

 with two only, it was a fair charge. 



5122. You have told me that you estimated a horse 

 alone to cost 8s.? Yes. 



6123. Is that including depreciation of the horse at 

 all? I suggest it does not, even at 8s.? No. 



5124. You have allowed nothing for the deprecia- 

 tion of the horse? No. 



.M _'"(. In the 8s., have you allowed for the days a 

 hor.se has been in tho stable or not? Yes, I have. 



6126. 1 do not quarrel with the 8s. at all, if you 

 added something to it for depreciation of the animal? 

 Many of IK reckon to make a profit on our horses. 



5127. On the average? Yes, I think so. 



5128. Y'ou are very lucky if you do? I should be 

 very sorry if I could not, anyhow. 



.ML".I. I ho 25s. is decidedly low, is not it? I do not 

 think it is too high. 



.M.'W. I suggest it should be 30s. at least or higher 

 than that a groat deal higher? Perhaps 2-Ys. would 

 lie ijuite enough for two. There are three times 

 ploughing there with two horses, and only once with 

 three horses. 



ol.'M. I notice again you have only charged two 

 guineas for the whole of the harvest, threshing, 

 marketing and everything. I suggest you cannot do 

 it for anything like that? Our aim was to get as 

 near the actual cost as possible. 



."132. That is what we want to get at? We did not 

 want to put extravagant charges. 



.11. '13. Just to go back for one moment to the plough- 

 ing, how much do you plough in a day:- An acre is 

 considered to be a dqy's work ; but I am afraid wo do 

 not get it done nowadays. 



5134. I suggest with strong land you would not get 

 more than three quarters of an acre done at the out- 

 -idc? Not in the winter months, no. 



">1.'{.. Do you suggest this price for getting an acre 

 ploughed to-day? On the fallow I think we did. 



.M.'Xi. What is a day's work now. What are the 

 hours? They are supposed to work from a quarter to 

 even tp half-past five in Yorkshire. 



M:i7. How many hours work is it? 54 hours a week. 

 Those are the hours fixed. 



."(13*. What wa it Iwforc the war? I think it was 

 practically the same. They are supposed to work 

 time quarters of an hour extra on the five days in 

 order to get their Saturday half day; but I am afraid 

 MC do not get it. 



"d.'l'.l. The hours are the same, are they- Yet*. 



"(140. I notice, you do not include anything cither 

 for interest or for management? There is nothing 

 [nit d.iw n for that. 



Mil. What do you estimate is the capital em- 

 ployed in a farm in Cleveland to-day ? I should think 

 almost l'V.11 per acre on a mixed farm. 



5142. At 5 per cent, that would be 1 an acre lor 

 interest, would not it? Yes. 



.M l:f. You have included nothing for management? 

 In our costs for production, they would not 

 allow us to put anything down for that. 



