440 
Farm Reports. 
Carpenter, Aylesby : — 
One year's wages, at 3s. fid. a day 
Extra, Is. per week 
Waggoner, Aylesby : — 
One year's wages in money 
Cottage and garden, value 
£ s. d. £ s. (Z» 
.54 12 0 
2 12 0 
57 4 0 
.32 0 0 
5 0 0 
■ 37 0 0 
The foremen board about 13 youths, who are engaged by the 
year at May-day, at wages averaging 121. each, and for whose 
board the foremen are paid as follows for each lad per annum : — 
£. s. d. 
Money 10 0 0 
20 stone baccn, valued at (Js. per stone .. .. GOO 
i cow 4 0 0 
G pecks malt, at 8s. per bushel 0 12 0' 
Pig in foldyard, valued at 10 0 
Potato-ground, valued at 0 8 0 
22 0 0 
It may be considered worthy of remark, that no labourer, how- 
ever aged or infirm, who has been in constant work on either of 
the farms, has ever been sent to a Union. However, the poor- 
rate comes to Is. lO^c?. at Aylesby, and 1*. 10c?. at Riby, the 
total rates at the former parish being 3s. 10\d. per acre, and 
2s. 9t/. per acre at Riby. 
Steam Cultivation. 
Very little need be said under this head, as the system pursued 
by Mr. Torr, and the results attained, with all other details, have 
already been fully described in this Journal by Mr. J, A. Clarke, 
on behalf of one of the Committees on Steam Cultivation ap- 
pointed by the Council in 1866. It will therefore be sufficient 
to mention that it has hitherto been done entirely by hiring, a 
system which is held in great favour by Mr. Torr, and is adopted 
by him for both threshing and grinding, as well as ploughing 
and cultivating. 
The cost of breaking up seeds or strong land stubble the first 
time is 12s. per acre ; if required a second time, it is done for 9s. 
per acre. Fowler's double set is used, and the arrangements as 
to time have hitherto been made without difficulty. No great 
saving in the number of horses employed has yet been made by 
the use of steam-ploughs. As to the effect of steam cultivation 
on different crops, Mr. Torr is strongly of opinion that it is most 
beneficial to root-crops, but he does not consider it so well 
adapted as some do to the preparation of land for wheat. 
Previous to the introduction of steam cultivation, Mr. Torr 
