APPENDIX. 131 



extra pair, and an old man was employed to attend to the cattle. This 

 lias not entailed any extra outlay for wages. The wages of the men 

 run from 20 to 28, and the average is 25 to this fall ; the 

 added wages "in kind," amounting to 20, "bring up the wage in 

 all to 45 per annum. The perquisites are meal, 70 Ib. per 

 month, valued at 6 5s. ; milk, half gal. per day at lOd. per gal., 

 712; potatoes planted, 2 ; house, 3 ; coals driven, 1. The 

 wages of the ten hired men at 45, amount to 450 ; and the amount 

 paid to women and two " orra " men, with extra help, has been 

 212 16s 8%d., or a total of 662 16s. 8%d. The cost of manual 

 labour on the 610 acres is thus 662 16s. 8jd., or l Is. 8$d. per 

 acre. You will now want to know how many acres of green crop, 

 com, and pasture, are worked at this rate of l Is. 8<L per acre. 

 On the home farm we had 36 acres wheat, 32 acres barley, 54 acres 

 oats, 3 tares, 27 \ acres potatoes, 44 \ acres turnips (72 acres green 

 crop), 25 acres hay, 91 pasture (12 acres of which, seeds, should have 

 been hay). On the off farm there were 30^ acres wheat, 32j acres 

 barley, 40 acres oats, 13 J acres potatoes, 39 acres turnips, 7 acres 

 bare fallow, 4 acres tares, 32 J acres hay, 35 acres pasture in rota- 

 tion, 62 J acres permanent pasture ; 124 acres out of the 610 are in 

 green crop. On the two farms eight pairs of horses have been kept 

 but, besides doing all the work on the farms, over 300 tons of dung 

 have been driven. About 100 cattle are kept during winter ; over 

 200 cross-bred lambs are fed on turnips, and 70 breeding ewes kept. 

 In summer 40 cattle 'are grazed, and about twelve fed on cut grass 

 or tares in the courts; 170 hoggs were fed during summer, and a 

 " park " was taken on a neighbouring farm for the ewes and lambs, 

 so that they might get a change, and a few extra cattle were grazed 

 along with the sheep. 



C. Specification of Field Gate (CHAP. Y. pp. 72-87). 

 To be constructed of wood and iron, the materials and workman- 

 ship to be of the best kind. These are to be sound English oak 

 and best wrought iron gas-pipe. Uprights back, 4^ inches by 

 3 inches ; head 3 inches by 2 J inches ; two central pieces 3 inches 

 by 2 inches horizontal. Top bar, 1 inch gaspipe, with three -J-inch 

 intermediate bars. The top, third, and bottom bars pass through 

 the back and head. The -|-inch bars, being let into the back and 

 head only one inch each the top, third, and bottom bars are secured 

 by back nuts. Unions are screwed on to the pipes ; these supply 



K 2 



