30 IVccds. 



would amount to $62,313/2. In 1891 the 

 time thus spent upon the farm amounted 

 to 489 hours, which would cost $6i.i2j/2. 

 For the two years, then, the outlay for 

 spudding was $123.44. This does not 

 include spudding on the road. On the 

 supposition that as much was expended in 

 spudding in the year 1889 ^s in the two fol- 

 lowing years, and this estimate is certainly 

 a liberal one, the whole outlay for spudding 

 in the three years would not be more than 

 $250.00. Now, suppose the 400 acres, or 

 thereabouts, of arable and pasture land on 

 this farm had been cleaned by the process 

 of the bare fallow during these three years, 

 that is to say, one-third of it each year, the 

 cost of hired labor of man and team, with 

 rental of land added, in the al)sence of crop, 

 would have been from $3,200 to $4,000. 

 This calculation is based on the assumption 

 that the cost of the bare fallow, when all 

 the labor is hired and the rental of the land 

 included, would be fully $8.00 to $10.00 per 

 acre." 



When the work of the bare fallow is 

 done by the farmer, it will not, of course, 

 be nearly so costly to the person doing it as 

 when the labor of man and team is hired; 



