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OBSERVATIONS. 



From the above flatement it appears, that the odds in the price of labour 

 and provifions is much lefs than could have been expeded. The only 

 material difference being in the maintenance of the farm-fervants. 



A Northamptonfhire farmer conliders 6 s. per week as a reafonable al- 

 lowance for the board of a ploughman, which, for 52 weeks, amounts 

 to - - - - L. 15120 



The Perlhfhire farmer furniflies his ploughman with that 

 quantity of oat- meal, which, on the average price of meal 

 for a number of years, amounts to 2 s. per week, to which, if 

 10 d. per week is added for milk, makes the whole expence 

 for the year - - L. 7 7 4 



For coals, bed-cloaths, i^jc. Is'c. may be added, 098 



7 17 c 



L. 7 15 o 



Thus, in confequence of the different modes in which the farm-fervants 

 are maintained in the different counties, the PerthQiire farmer faves about 

 L.7,i5s. a-yearfor each of hisfervants, which the othermuftexpend. There 

 is no probability, however, that the Northamptonfliire farmer can avail 

 himfelf of any information he may receive in regard to this particular, 

 as his ploughmen will not be difpofed to give up their roaft beef and pud- 

 ding, and betake themfelves to oat-meal and milk. But it is humbly fub- 

 mitted to his confideration, whether he might not Itffen the expence of 

 cultivating his farm, by reducing the number of fervants and horfes. 

 The pradtice of plowing with a man and 2 horfes, without a driver, is 

 general, not only in Perthftiire, but all over Scotland. Whereas, in Nor- 

 thamptonffiire, a man and a b<y, with 3, 4, or 5. horfes, are employed to 

 plough an equal quantity, vvhu h, for the fake of calculation, may be 

 reckoned at an acre a-day in both counties ; and let it be luppofed alfo, 

 that thefe men and horfes are employed in plowing' the whole year round, 

 in which pe;iod they will each have plowed 313 acres, — in that cafe the 

 different accounts of the expence would ftand as under. 



NORTHAMP. 



