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NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE. 



Ploughman's wages, L. lo o o 



Boy's wages, - 500 



Boys board, at 4 s. per week, 10 8 

 Maintenance of 4 horfes, at 



L. 15 each, - 60 o o 



L. 8 5 8 o 



PERTH-SHIRE 



Ploughman's wages, L. 10 o * 



Maintenance of 2 horfes at 



L. 1 5 each, - 30 o o 



L. 40 o o 



By the above account, including only the wages of the fervants, and 

 the maintenance of the horfes, which are alike in both counties, the ex- 

 pence of plowing an acre of land in Northamptonfliire amounts to about 



5 s. 6 d, while the fame operation is as well performed in the Carfe of 

 Gowrie, or in any other part of Perthfliire, for 2 s. 6 d. leaving a dif- 

 ference of 3 s. per acre ; but as a greater number of acres are annually 

 plowed on every farm, in a ftate of tillage, than the farm really con- 

 tains, (fome fields being repeatedly plowed) the additional expence of 

 plowing a farm in Northamptonfliire, (and which it is certainly in the 

 power of every farmer in that county to fave), may be eftimated at 4 s. 



6 d. per acre. A'^. B. It is hardly neceflary to obferve, that the above cal- 

 culation includes only fuch articles as are the fame in both counties, and 

 not the whole expence .0? plowing an acre in either. It may alfo be re- 

 marked, that the total annual expence of cultivating an acre of tillage- 

 land in either county, is very different from what is above dated ; for a 

 particular explanation of this, reference is made to the table in the re- 

 port of the Carfe of Gowrie, where it appears, that the expence of cul- 

 tivating a farm of i-jz Scotch acres, exclufive of rent, amounts to L. 657,. 

 6 s. 4 d. or L. 2 : 8 : ^ per Scotch acre. 



WOODS 



