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COST. 



s. d. 



Filling, cartage, and spreading of manure ... ... 10 



Ploughing with 3 horses and a driver, 1 acre per day ... 10 



Pressing, one-third the cost of ploughing ... ... 34 



Two harro wings with heavy drags, 4 horses, at Is. ... 2 



6 harrowings at 6d. ... ... ... ... 30 



1 drill (4 horses) ... ... ... ... 1 10 



1 harrowing after drilling ... ... ... 6 



Seed, 2 J bushels at 4s. 6d. ... ... ... 1 1 3 



Bird-scaring, which ends autumn cultivation ... 1 



Spring harrowing, say ... ... ... ... 10 



Spring rolling ... ... ... ... ... 1 



1 cwt. nitrate of soda at lls. 1 18 



2 cwt. superphos. at 3s. 6d. J 



Harvesting ... ... ... ... ... 15 



Threshing ... ... .... ... ... 8 



Dressing ... ... ... ... ... 1 



Marketing ... ... ... ... ... 5 



Kent, rates, and taxes, say ... ... 1 15 



Total 6 6~Tl 



Now as to the possible returns. There appears to be room 

 for a profit even now, and in fact there must be if wheat 

 cultivation is to continue. What can reasonably be expected 

 from land costing 35s. an acre for rent, rates, and taxes, in 

 wheat after clover, with a dressing of 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda 

 and 2 cwt. of superphosphates to the acre, besides a dressing 

 of dung ? What should you look for ? I think from nine to 

 ten sacks would be the probable crop thirty-six to forty 

 bushels of corn, the straw to be considered as set against the 

 cost of the dung. 



s. d. 



36 bushels of wheat at 4s. 3d. per bushel = 713 

 or if we take 40 bushels 8 10 



This result shows that the margin to be looked for at present 

 prices is small indeed. The fact is, that wheat cannot be 

 grown at a profit at 17s. per sack. But if we value it at 1 



