THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
[JANUARY 11, 9 
THE COST OF uper LABOUR 
о 
Тнк farm 
arable, and 73 їп pasture 
. Onan ave 0 
acres of root crops ө een grown. ge 
number of horses kept, he estimate of Y: cost 
of horse-labour is җы” оп an avera 
Iu the course of this уе no fewer than 11 ios 
have been lost by various diseases and рган 
5 be at once admitted as an unusual number. 
price of t n ттр ру; which, ш. | 
tiplied y 11, makes a total loss of 2427. ; 
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dressing, &с. This farm being very € - the | ment about the “ опе way " eost of cultivation, T thik I m 
buildings in or nearly the centre, pt to misle ead those w. ho have paid 
inimum e labour, and of s з е subject. It would therefore he 
labour, also in connec with the horses. To- ceni чн tter ae vin ole cost sh. b € ^ near 
whilst I write, 4 horses have carted out 64 loads of|it is possible to ascertain it, which w d give the 
ung, and laid it in heaps upon the в ubble for | public generally more faith in the "sd ef impartia} 
ploughing in. On many farms 1 ae жен of ау 
4 would have been required іо cart uch| tis Y clear that steam cultivation by a small 
a number of loa In al- ea ting d СЫН nd|power of e e, at а low first cost, would n not k 
from remises, same actin: И, holds | economical P. pones a small o large farm, 28 the 
good, and convincingly shows the great e cost гайн wó pos is vae equal, whether 2 10 асте 
ig 
with powerful tackle, | is a large first Жы, which 
n annua f s accounts of steam culti-|up very much in interest upon ik acre plough 
€ So. nf geh Bang A makes = The | vation. re extremely various, i yb trials, every one shoul : 1 
price of Oats has ` been about 268. per qr. during the | running to 20s. per acre. Which is right? | mind that eat power is guai used, viü 
past 20 ye: The price of hay ra ае е 4l per|or which figures might a beginner expect to get every thing in in the best еа order, with 
ton. The spen ee e of Oats 20s. qr. The|nearest? Th > “ one way" mode of calculation is at all | and interested hands to u implements to #6 
price of hay ш La ents very apt to mislead. The торак шег of | best possible advantage. аера power or 
YEAR. ka | plon Eng, and pepin e the same land ty or thr ree | more may be exerted to plough aer our, bnt 
43 Weeks Oats st 1) bushel n "t «е ст =: £8 1 0 ines. M p e powert 
9 Ditto, Grass in уч and Augus x Ae. uch he is most likely io be deceived, E. 
2 Tons s Straw and Chaff 4220 lead Strangers on to, suppose that steam аы ion is rime any one purchase an 
pam. налар. 110 What is the cost of scarify- | complete with other matters, the whole зра 
rse to keep up stock, interest. E e ing in many instances by Каке: when 4 horses and | would reach a very high figure indeed. 
£21 0 1 man get over 8 acres a day? Why only about dert. eid aware that a ewt. of coal ав fuel fig 
dou 
An allowance of 1 ton of 
an. acr е; ог by iblin ing the - horsée, or on 
chaff is ойло aboni 35 Ih Je бау for 48 ved 
КЕЯ of hay 
t, but no exact weighing of e Tem straw or 
hat kas” yn place. А guinea a Tub for straw | 
be estimating it at its full value for home 
арбоо 
1 1 
ount to dier 2s. 2d. per. acre, Misi 
ау” 
e pow erful than the e power ofi 
common dm тү їп steam ploughing the poweri 
only 
is "sti idee than the lowest “опе w: 
ieu on of steam grubbi ing. 
would b 
+h 
tal 
ple oughing when any o thinks of adopting t 
In wet seasons steam ! be worked p 
stances. The first ШОТ of она after саек 
7 inches двер has veins rate s: ied 3 
day, Mg horses ; ym han 
Ordinary Ploughing 5 inches 5 “deep, has beon | 
done а M rate of 3 roods а day?with 2 horses 
Hose. aru during spring, Чош 1 acre a i 
— - 
bour fall in roper | very glad to adopt steam for ploughin 
The heavy ploughings can generally be — if I could see that it cost no more than horse 
accomplished in autumn, During } р 
in ime e, indeed, the e great diede D 
нена анне аб еа 2 time. movable 
engine, on the otier hand, of 4 to 8 tons weight, waste 
& 
ean be at once turned to carting. eshing is the 
only e foran engine during frost or wet weather. 
horses scarify from 6 to 8 a 
ming that a horse ет. уч 217. а year, and |\ 
t o! 
m 
bares e land is too 
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e Moreamendente 
Hillside Irri —My eye парыве t Т ө 
Pusey's note on od '* Brendon 
or ан Pie to work it, жее Бы шоге рое | 
cent Nu mber, before I had read the е article ad uil 
1 
D With ploughman's wages at 
of ploughing with 2 horses, 
rmed, would cost— E NAE 
(with 3 horses and a drive 3 rood 
рег acre; 80 days" P afa of 6 horses has. bee 
when an acre a MIA is per- | 
44. 
for go ша, of: the lan Wind steam. plosphing | 
| 
t суси ears, ani 
he las years, 
> a od d deal ye дз А do. Were it not for Mr. Pusey! 
testimon e correctness of Mr. Кой 
“Те 
| into тб ‘meadow, 217:1 
„ but 
ny t 
| aecount, I should Reiter have looked upon it as per- 
fect Li yd > and wonder 
ed that — qus Ab 
tal expense of co {аш sik 
converting a 
Of rare Mr. "od a 
а year. Total cost. of ploughing, 64l, or about 6s. 6d. | 
€ 
» 
200 ploughed have been dnd 
1 acre 
work, Abo ut : acres out of | t 
the of 
onl: 
eather, snow storms and frosts, ` more ce 
iie: "vid be by — horsemen 
the loss should be charged to the e plonghing ! !| 
presume, wi with fair reason, that as 
land on a light clay sul 
have converted the same kind of lan 
bourhood е 
acre рег day wi leav 
150 acres for which steam (мелек De ju. абу na 
is chiefly ро a em ог à heavy 
clay "loam; about one-fourth a 
"d 
TH. 
rion. fime devoted to ech kind of ia 
t the year is pretty nearly as| 
plough, that the horses should also dot а 4 den of 
have A: used, or sn the plou; 
Roal has four horses that can draw a 
cultivatio: 
should therefore. do all the e necessary p plou oughing on а 
farm in matter of 60 days, if the necessary 
e for aduga вала light aets of cultivation on an 
farm , without a steamer can get over 
the ploughing in 80 days. Well, it is a Ep faria 0 
in 
80 the steam- engine m 
bits dn үр p their hope, кай I а feel ve a: 
if h tell 
E 
210 days, chiefly occupied in the leading divisions of labour 
throughout the year. 
Та 43 weeks, of 6 days, there are 258 days, 
ыз 48 days for sundry carriages of SE d ашан 
materials for roads, ditch banks, timber carting, lost 
· Estimating the cost of ET horses at 21/ ea 
or 
the pasture, without charging it 
6 horses, at 211. rt . 2126 
Ts 
Manual labour, at 65. a day for 258 days " 
8 
2208 8 8 
or little over 1i. per 
which 
| there i ів по particular 
That quantity should not oceupy y more than "days | i 
threshing. The total number of „days, therefore 
which the engine should be at work, in both threshing 
and cultivating, should not exceed 90 or 100 days 
a year. 
The cost of Fowlers TE and tackle before it 
could be sot to work 00 miles from the mak 
1201 a 
ы Бнр, 
ould be 27. a day. Let, 
а day stand for Bed, and 
number o 
igpd toh me where to buy such, 
Араш 60° bai of lime cost me x 
wende of 2L бе. course he he 
the land. I pay for perg, bu 
= si аарыг up from 9 to 12 inches = E 
wes 4 
I always understood ше eu tting м IB course 
for water meadows was very expens 
it for 10s. per acre. Т, should feel ec vory m much cblig 
you will state whether Mr. ii is o 
e ithir some e aat EN 
in the statement. 45 Initio. [The 
Mr. E Roal's farm, to whi 
ка the 6th Mes of the 
cer Al 8 Journal e Society gave it а prize, T 
e way” c pne 
r acre. When ЕА interest is ge nw the | 
| instances .should be d. oubli at once, and 
пер without tho least doubt of doing any injustice to | 
evel 
bara one ay SE that the stirring 
weather is ап admirable thing, and 
of the cost ае э — " horse 
of clay soils in dry 
Km ihe difference 
vation is not 
| dotes crops ven however been 
The oft 
he eire ion 
instances ; still, fenem. 
grown by horse culti- 
d tale of de feet of the horses 
„ in some 
rSe-power JT be puo d 
reason why three or 
| vation, 
time it was hou" 
Story which it sehn ens 
Tar it repr * Ab Ini to read t 
he confidently diste эы eH 
mezin that. the note ctions it em E a 
with the sentence, “І pes ve k Roal's fur". 
an 
were, | so much the po e pro павіс deri - " 
l|or four inches deep. 
Drained 
S' feet if it is ploughed 
corn is 
ui to ordin Ee the 
or cultivail ый, d 
roper time ina 
ed land Mies no јату n 
