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ders as a remedy for low prices. He declared no money was 

 to be made by farming : do his best, he could not pay his 

 rent and leave himself a profit under the present prices. He 

 had been holding on to his wheat for three years in hopes of 

 a rise, but now despaired of it, except the protective policy 

 was returned to. 



There was a coal mine and lime-kiln on the farm, and a 

 tram-road from it to the railroad about two miles distant. A 

 tram-road is a narrow track of wooden rails, on which cars 

 are moved by stationary power or horses. On extensive 

 farms they might be advantageously made use of. A road 

 running through the barns and out-buildings of a farmstead, 

 on which straw, feed, dung, &c., could be easily moved by 

 hand, would cost but little, and often afford a great saving of 

 labour. 



The fences were all of hawthorn, low, and close-trimmed. 



The farm servants had from $65 to $75 a year and their 

 board. (The very next day a man told me he paid just half 

 these sums.) Day-labourers from $2 to $2.50 a week (fair 

 weather) and board themselves. A boy just over fourteen 

 years old (under which age it is by law forbidden) told me 

 he worked in the coal mines for sixteen cents a dar. 





