14 PLANTING. 



Cultivating the Furrows. 



One man, at 2s. 6d. per day £0 2 6 



Two horses, at 3s. 6d. each per day, . . . 7 

 Wear and tear, 2 



Six acres cultivated a-day £0 11 6 



Equal, per acre, £0 1 11 



Planting the whole of the Trees. 



Labour only— men and boys, . . . .£35176 



Taking up trees and couching them on land, . 2 10 10 



Carriage from nursery to plantation, . . . 3 



Seventy acres planted, .... £41 8 4 

 Equal, per acre, £0 11 10 



Cost of Tries. 



123,700 larch, at 13s. 6d. per 1000, 



33,500 „ lis. Od. 



17,450 Scots Brs, at 9s. Od. i, 

 7,900 „ 7s. Od. „ 



2,000 pines, at 15s. Od. i, 



Total, 184,550 Seventy acres planted, .£119 10 

 ■Equal, per acre £1 14 



Cost per Acre. 



First ploughing, ... £0 



Subsoiling, 



Cultivating, . 



Labour in planting, &c. , 



Cost of trees, . 



Total cost per acre, , 



10 Ol = Labour only, 

 1 11 /£1, 7a. per acre. 



11 lo; 



1 14 



£3 10 



" The advantages derived from the use of this sys- 

 tem are — First, That the pan is thereby thoroughly 

 destroyed over the whole surface to be planted. 

 Second, That the trees are then planted with less 



