THE CONVEYANCE OF PRODUCE 145 



Horses — 



Nine horses for ploughing l\ acres @ 



2s. 6d £126 



Three men @ 3s. . . . 090 



Three boys @ is, . . . 030 



Total jfi 14 6 



Steam — 



Ploughing 2 J acres @ 12s. . . £1 J o 

 Cost of Coal and Carting Coal and 



Water o n 3 



Motor — 



Ploughing 2 acres — 



One driver . 



One ploughman 

 Lubricants 

 Petrol 



Total £1 18 3 



£046 

 026 

 o I o 

 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 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 



