ON MEASURE-WORK. 



Piece Work. 



Annual Farm Operations. 



(a) Tillayc Operations. ! £ 



Subsoil ploughing — 4 horses and 

 men 



Ploughing — 2 horses and man 

 Harrowing (each time) 



3. 



4. Scarifying — 2 horses and man 

 h. Rolling 



(b) Mana(/ement of Manure. {Mea- 

 sure hrfore each Operation.) 



1 . Filling into carts in yard 



2. Hauling to heap 



.">. First turning 



4. Second turning 



."). Loading into carts 



0. Carting 300 yards to field, and 



dividing into heaps 



r. Spreading in the field 30 cubic 

 yards per acre 



(c) Seed Operations. j 



1. Broadcast sowing : . . . 



2. Drilling corn — 3 horses and at- 



tendance I . . . 



3. Setting potatoes ' . . . 



4. Hoeing in wheat, from G 



5. Dibbling ditto, from 7 



0. Dibbling beans 4 



7. Planting potatoes by sjiade, from . . 8 



(d) Cultivation of Crops. I 



1. Harvest-hoeing grain-crop — 9 in. 



drills 



2. Hand-hoeing green crops (singling) 



3. Second hoeing I 



4. Hand-hoeing broad-cast turnips, &c.: 



two or three times 



Horse-hoeing drill-crops ! ... 



Hoeing (deep) between potatoes (by! 



hand) i 



P;iring stubbles (by hand) b 



Paring and burning old sainfoin . . ,0 1 J 



Stille burning 11 



=• I 



(e) Harvest operations. [ 



1. Mowing clover, from 2 



2. Mowing meadow grass, from .... 2 



3. Mowing and haymaking i 



4. Mowing barley and oats, from .... 2 



5. Reaping barley and tying, from . . 7 

 G. Reaping wheat and tying, from . . .0 8 



per cubic yard, 

 about 0? 



about 



per acre. 



to S 



,, 10 



,, 8 



„ 12 



n 



to 

 „ 1 



,, 14 



3 

 3 

 10 

 3 

 9 

 14 



10 



O3 



Day "Work. 



d £ s. d. £ s. 



d. £ s. 

 per acre. 

 19 

 too 15 

 4 ,, 

 G „ 3 



about 10 



per cubic yard. 

 to J 



about 11 



to 



2 



per acre. 

 ,,0 



,,0 

 ^0 



