THE CONVEYANCE OF PRODUCE 145 



Horses — 



Nine horses for ploughing 2\ acres @ 



2s. 6d £126 



Three men @ 3s. . . . 090 



Three boys @ is. . . . 030 



Total 14 6 



Steam — 



Ploughing 2\ acres @ 12s. . . £170 

 Cost of Coal and Carting Coal and 



Water . . . . . o 11 3 



Motor — 



Ploughing 2 acres — 



One driver . 



One ploughman 

 Lubricants 

 Petrol 



Total £1 18 3 



£046 

 026 

 Olo 

 o 10 6 



Total 18 6 



Mr Joseph Rochford, Turnford Nurseries, near 

 Broxbourn, uses a small tractor (Wallis & Steevens) for 

 cucumbers, grapes, and tomatoes, which carries 4 tons 

 of the first or I ton of the second, thus doing " the 

 work of four big horses, and £3 a week cheaper than 

 they did." He also adds " The Wolseley people are 

 now building me a 4 cylinder 24-horse power van to 

 carry 3 tons at 8 miles an hour. This will do the 

 journey of 17 miles easily in 2\ hours, and we expect 

 to use it daily for one journey to market and back (34 

 miles) but in one busy season it will do two journeys. 

 Our produce varies from 2 tons a day in winter, to 15 

 tons a day in the summer months, from 35 acres of glass- 

 houses. 



K 



