ROTAL COMMISSION ON AQRICULTURK. 



3 Stplembtr, 1919.] 



SIR BICHARU WINFREY, H.P. 



[Continual. 



The cost of team and manual labour, are those 

 actually paid by the smallholders, who get assistance 

 from their neighbours. 



In reckoning the profits, it must, of course, bo 

 remembered, that each smallholder is charging for his 

 own labour at current rates, and this applies to the 

 wife, or othef members of ihe family. 



With regard to the general condition of agriculture 

 in the Eastern Counties, I proixw to point out that 

 the increased value of agricultural land, which has 

 gone up since 1914 from 30 per cent, (and in some 

 cases) to 100 per cent., is, in my judgment, an 

 infallible index of the general prosperity of the 

 industry. 



7973. (5) The three-course system on a smallholding 

 in Deeping Fen, dear Spalding. 



Fint Year. 



Potatoes, followed by wheat (then oats or barley). 

 Cost to Produce one acre. 

 1913. 



jp 



Tilting or light ploughing oat 

 stubble 



Harrowing and cleaning stubble 



Manuring (carting 12 loads 

 out of the yard to the heap 

 8 loads on to the field) 



Spreading same 



Value of farmyard manure 



Artificial. 10 cwts. superphos- 

 phates 



Seed. 15 cwt 



Ploughing 6 inches deep 



Dragging twice ... 



Hoeing down 



Drawing out rows 



Sowing artificial 



Setting seed (2 women one day) 



Ploughing in 



Harrowing down 



Rolling down 



Skerry ing (first time) ... 



Earthing up 



Harrowing down 



Skerrying (second time) 



Weeding (first time), piece work 



Skerrying (third time) 



Earthing up (second time) 



Weeding (second time) 



Lifting (two horses ploughing 

 up) 



Carting to grave 



Nine women picking 



Harrowing twice 



Graving down 



Earthing up graves twice 



Rent 



Rates 



Implements, depreciation 



National Insurance and Work- 

 men's Compensation ... 



Interest on capital 



d. 





 6 



16 

 2 

 2 



1919. 

 B. d. 



1 '2 (3 

 10 



260 

 070 



300 



3 10 

 550 

 1 7 6 

 15 

 2 

 070 

 050 

 10 



7 





 



u 





 







o 





 2 6 

 2 6 

 7 6 



7 6 



2 6 



li 

 



7 



7 



076 

 076 

 070 



1 10 

 15 



2 14 

 050 

 070 

 10 

 200 

 058 

 050 



020 

 200 



Add eoit of drilling (10*. 6d.) 

 and delivery (7i.)See Qvei- 

 tioru 8163-4 



16 4 11 33 6 8 



17 6 



Yield, 1913. 



Biz ions at 60s. per ton 

 Cost of production 





 18 

 16 



s. d. 

 

 4 11 



Profits in 1913 . 1 16 1 



Yirld, 1919. 

 Six tons at 8 per ton (actual price made 



Hi 1918) 4g 



Cost of production ... ... 34 



7973. (6) Second Year. 



l.-iiinated cost of production of 1 acre: 

 following potatoes. 



1913. 

 s. d. 

 9 



2 ti 

 4 



1 

 1 

 I 



1 

 2 

 2 



r, 



* 



Ploughing 5 inches deep ... 



Harrowing twice 



Drilling 



Harrowing seed in 



Rolling 



Harrowing ... ... ... 



Horse hoeing ... ... ... 



Weeding (first time) 



Weeding (second time) ... ... 



Reaping ... ... ... ... 



Tying 



Carting 15 



Threshing 16 



Coal for threshing 2 



Carting to station 7 



Seed corn 10 



Rent 2 



Rates 



Depreciation of implements ... 

 National Insurance and Work- 

 men's Compensation ... 

 Interest on capital ... ... 















0' 



6 



6 



6 























6 











8 



6 



6 

 



Whwat 



1919. 

 s. d. 

 176 

 070 

 070 

 036 

 026 

 026 

 050 

 070 

 070 

 076 

 16 

 250 

 300 

 060 

 090 

 160 

 200 

 058 

 036 



026 

 10 



742 13 17 2 



Yield, 1913. 



a. d. 

 4J qrs. at 2 ............... 900 



Straw at consuming value ... ...... 10 



9 10 

 Lett cost .................. 743 



Profit, 1913 ............ 2 5 10 



Yield, 1919. 



qrs. 



Straw at consuming value ......... 



17 17 6 

 LMcost.. ............ 1317 2 



Profit, 1919 ... 



404 



7974. (7) Third yrar, Oat crop following Wheat. 



Same charges as for Wheat, plus the first four items 

 in the potato crop, amounting in 1913 to 1 10s., and 

 in 1919 to 4 4s. 6d., and value of eight loads of 

 farmyard manure (less variation in price of seed). 



One acre of grass land laid down for Hay, 1919. 



a. d 



Rent 200 



Rates 058 



Basic slag (5 cwt.) 17 6 



Spreading same ... ... ... ... 016 



Mowing 10 



Making 16 



Carting and stacking ... ... .. 100 



Thatching 070, 



34 4 2f 



5 16 3 



Yield. 



11 tons of Hay at 8 per ton 

 Grazing eddish 



12 

 1 



13 

 Less cost ... ... ... ... 5 16 



Profit 



734 







at 



Profit in 1919 



t Corrected figure (See Appendix IV.) 



7975. I also submit the following actual figures of 

 the cost* of production of four crops in rotation (the 

 13 15 10 [ 4-oourae systoml by one of the smallholders on our 



Swnffham farm, which is exceedingly light land, 



showing that the inrrensod price, far exceeds the 

 enhanced cost of production. 



