JANUARY* ,51 



tharg'e interest for this sum, at ten per cent jf 13 4 O 



Keeping three horses a year, 60 



Ow man and two boys, at I 1 ?*, a week, 52 weeks, . . 44 4 O 



Three hundred days work, QCO loads, at Is go O O 



Allowance for beer, turnpikes on some roads, and! 



? 2. 2j 1(J U 



sundries, Is. 6d. a day, . . * 



.*2ig 18 



Supposing them to bring each a ton weight, ac- 

 cording to the various authorities in Scotland, QOO 

 tons cost this stun, or about 5s. per ton. 



This might probably answer ; but suppose four 

 horses in a waggon, and to bring the common load 

 of a waggon (not nearly that of carts, proportion- 

 ally to the team), the expence would be so in- 

 creased, that I <b not conceive it could answer. 



However, in all these cases, where carriage runs 

 dear, the more valuable manures should be brought, 

 such as soot, ashes, malt-dust, night-soil, bones, 

 rape-cake, rabbit dung, &c. in which the carriage 

 bears but a small proportion to the total expence. 

 It must be remembered by the young farmer, that 

 all these spec.Jatio-is evidently demand a large ca- 

 pital, which he should carefully calculate before he 

 enters into them. 



WATERED MEADOWS. 



Mr. Wright directs that the floater should take 

 care in this month to keep the land sheltered by 

 the water from the severity of frosty nights. It is 

 necessary, however, every ten days or a fortnight, 



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