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new, but to maintain. and keep up a reasonable and fair stock of implements, as 

 brought on the farm, the same at going off as coming on the farm. 



The keep of horses in corn is no more in 1803 than in 1790, but the rise in 

 rent, &c. makes their keep in hay, grass, &c. considerably more, for which I have 

 added one-fifth more for each horse. 



If I am called upon to know how the work is to be executed on the 100 

 acres, by the four men and two boys, and six horses; I say, there are 365 days in 

 the year, from which take 52 days they leave 313, and take from these 30 days 

 for rainy and bad weather, leaves 283 working days for both man and horse. So 

 with my six horses I make sometimes only two teams, but mostly three, for 283 

 days, which I order to work as follows, viz. First, a pair of horses cart all my 

 produce to Liverpool, both corn and straw, which, from 100 acres, at 3 quarters 

 of wheat per acre, are 300 quarters, at 8 quarters each load, are 38 loads; 100 

 loads of straw, both take up 138 days; and the team in returning from Liver- 

 pool, each journey, brings me back to the land one ton and a half of manure, or 

 207 tons, then I want 123 tons more to make up my number 330 tons, which 

 take up 82 days, added to 138, make 220 days, which deducted from 283, leave 

 63 spare days. 



Now my manure is accounted for, how is it to begot on the land? The 330 tons 

 of manure I allude to, is to manure one-third part of the 100 acres, ai ten tons to 

 each acre; by getting 330 tons every year, I manure the 100 acres of land all 

 over once in every three years, and by so doing, and working the land well» 

 and keeping it clean, it will produce me the three quarters per acre, as before 

 alluded to. 



I am then to plough and get my land in order for sowing the seed, which I sow 

 on every acre 105 pounds, and plough the 100 acres four times over; and one ^ 



plough ploughs me five acres in six days, which occupies 480 days to plough the 

 land. 



For that service I have two teams of two horses each, and each working 283 " '| 



days, make 563 days, from which take 480 days leaves 83 days, and 63 days 

 before accounted for, make 146 days. Now to get on the manure; 330 tons, 

 with three teams of two horses each, at 12 tons per day each team, spread on the 

 land take up 9 days, and from 146, leaves X37, which divide by three, leaves 45 



