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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 



