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N .i\ \i,l;|r! I.Tt'KK. 



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MR. R. STKA 



.mini. 



employ more labour and grow more produce on our 

 farms. 



417M rJl l.iilniur. I am in favour of tin- Agii- 

 i ultinal Wnges Hoard, hut consider there shoiil.< 

 i los- relation iH-lween the pi ice ot i.il.,.,n and the pi n 

 ot fiirm pnxlii. .- I am satisfied thai the amount ... 

 work done liv our men is I- -~ and tin- quality 

 than il bus Im-n during my experience. 1 believe 

 the re.ixiiis ;,,, that during "lie war afl the younger 

 and most vigorous men were in the army, ami we had 

 lo replace liiem with what we could get. and th. 

 laliour after M lime tended to come hack to the levi 1 

 of the worst. In my opinion there are two principal 

 icasoiis which unite a man : > work, one the tear of 

 losing his job. the si-coml a desire to better his posi- 

 tion and get on in the world. I In-'inc this to be 

 i he result hugely ol education. The education given 



ill Scotland is \,rv much better tha'i that given here 

 idiil I should like to sw the Scotch system adpti-d. 



In Scollaud a lx>y works up to IH- hi ad horseman, 

 then foreman, then in m;n:\ ca-i-s he lakes a small 

 furiii and moves on to a larger one. In the South of 

 Kuglaud it is very rare for a farm lalnmrer u> ! 

 a bailiff, a |K>sititin which they should tie the most 

 competent to fill, with advantage i. themselves, their 

 mast. -is and the agricultural industry. 



1171. i.'ti b'..rfn iiililui' . The principal items of 

 expenditure on our Wiltshire farms are lahnur ami 

 .ike. 



(a) l.<ilinr. I find that the wages of day 

 lalioiirer.s have risen as follows: 

 t t. <1. 



14 j>er week. 

 10 

 18 

 

 



a 



./ i;roirin</ rrn " tin- \\ iltfhirt 



\. / : -' 



Halt 

 Ploughing ............... 



Hnlf vetches: 



Tw ii-e dragging 

 Tw ice harrow 111^. 



d ... ......... 



Swedes; 

 Ploughing 

 Twice cullivaling 

 Tw ice drugging 

 Tw ice harrow ing 

 e rolling 



idling 



Drilling swedes 

 Seed .................. 



.'t cwt. superphosphate 

 Twice horst> hoeing ... 



-H'lig ......... " 



Singling 



Kent ............... 



Hates ... 

 Insurance 



Proportion of lost time and unremuiiera 

 live work ............... 



Interest on capital ... ... ... ... 



Management ... ... ... ... 



syttem. 



ii i i, 



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 J in ti 



4 II 

 8 



a 



August. 1914 

 L918 



1917 

 1918 

 1919 



H. Si-i-iinil i/i'n r. 

 Turnips : 



o 



030 

 Q .t I 

 030 



3 

 000 



1 4 



10 



2 a 



1 



(I \-2 ti 



n -2 <\ 



U U 



lo il 



1 H 

 100 



13 



I' s. ,|. 



25 



30 , ., Tw ice ploughing 280 



;i (i . ,. 4 Times dragging 090 



(With a half-holiday) Twice harrowing ... ... ... ... 030 



Blacksmiths', carpenters' and tradesmen's dills have Twice rolling 034 



i isen even more in proportion. Turnip seed ... ... ... ... ... 6 



(l')l'nl;'. In August. ]!)]. cotton cake was Drilling H " 



C4 l.'js. per ton ; to-day, 20. 3 cwt. superphosphate 140 



Superphosphate in 1914, 2 'los., in 1919, 7 10s Twice horse hoeing Old < 



per ton. ing 



447--). (4) Sh,ri,. I sl,,,,,!d Kke to bring to your Hoeing 



notice the lo^s incurred hy keeping hurdle sheep, lam '''"' 



convinced that the talk of the land in Wiltshire can- 

 not grow corn satisfactorily without the aid of sheep. 



.re the loss on -heep must, as things are. ho Proportion ol lost urn,- and unremunera- (I I., 



paid for by tho corn. I contend that it is in the 



Btamta of tlie ,,,uiitrv that the price of fa. I utvr,*t on Capital .. 



sheep should be materially increased. 1 know it it 

 thought that if the price of mutton were, increased 

 it would be beyond the rcadi of any but the well-to- 

 do. Lamb, at all CM-MI-, has always been somewhat 



of a luxury, and there are people among all classes (* Third t , rnr 



who are ready lo pny for a luxury and by so doing 



they would reduce the price of w'hent to' those leis Wheat: *. d. 



lortunate than themselves. Ploughing 1 4 



'"" SV V ' ;'*''"' '.I- ' fed that Three time-, drngginp !) 



sen .,-,.. ,,s appln-,1 to agriculture, has made very little Twi(ll , ] t . irriiw ; n ., 



h.-a.lway. and in fact unless it does M. unconsciously. T | )U sl, ( .k , PO ,1 ' 1 



helps - M.,V little. I abo consider thai little im- vit r \'\< 



provcment h;is l,e.-n made in the methods ,,f ploughing o '" ' ' ' 



and cultivating our land during the last .%() \ 



I have a double set of Fowl, ,'s engines, nenrlv fifty 



ywr. old, that will compete in cheapness and " arr , W " 1R "' 



i.'li'iem^ with anything on the market. Ttacton, ,"' 



sin a ride, have liepn most unreliable and expensive. 



as hare milking machines. In this connection I 



el,y,m. ; theapiH,int,,,e,it by the Hoard of Agriculture He-stooking. bird scaring 



of a Committee tc, i-,,mid.-r the improvement ,,| ,, K ri- 



ultural machinery. Thatching 026 



4477 /,. /,,,,/. The Wages Hoanl in Threshing ... 1 ;t (i 



fixing the price of lal-oiir put a price as a minimum Delivering com and sack hire 8 



that must be paid to the most inefficient workman. I! ''" 1 12 6 



In fixing the price of our produce I do not wish you Hates 026 



<-idcr the inefficient farmer, but I do wish you Insurances 026 



-ider the poorer and more distant arable land. Proportion of lost time u nil unremunera- 



The pi in- must }- .sufficiently high t<> render its cul- tivi> work - 15 



livation profitable. V e. a a Country, cannot afford Interest on capital 100 



to let it revert to Inrkg lease. Management 100 



""* of growing corn, producing In ot ____^_ 



and mutton ai cording to the custom of our part of 10 ;> ]] 



the eountnr are appended. 



