Jtepo7-t 0)1 the Farm-Prize Competition, 1871. 
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The men are allowed the twelfth of an acre of potato grpund, 
worked and dunged. They have beer in hay-harvest, and on 
threshing days. They have piece-work when it can be conve- 
niently let, as turnip -hoeing, &c. Their wives and children 
do the weeding and most of the root-harvest by the piece. They 
have their coal carted for them, and their potatoes carted home 
to their houses. The shepherd has one ton of coal allowed him 
at lambing time. The foreman gets his breakfast and supper 
with the household servants on Sunday, and his meals on full 
threshing days. 
Abstract of Labour Account for tue last Four Years. 
For the Year eudiDg 
Ladyday, 
186^ 
Men fed during 
Harvest niontli. 
Wheat cut by Taslcers. 
For (lie Year ending 
Ladyday, 
1869. 
Men fed during 
Harvest month. 
Wheat cut partly by 
Taskers. 
For the Year ending 
Ladyday, 
1870. 
]\Ien fed during 
Harvest month. 
Wheat cut by Keapers. 
For the Year ending 
Ladyday, 
1871. 
Men received Money 
in lieu of Keep during 
Harvest month. 
Wheat cut by Reapers. 
Total amountentered in) 
labour account for all ■ 
farm purposes . . . . ) 
Deduct extras properly! 
belonging to capital > 
Leaving for ordinary! 
farm labour .. .. / 
Add estimate for keep of i 
16 men, 4 weeks at 9s., 
for the years ending* 
Lady Day 1868, 1869, 
£. J. d. 
532 G 5* 
24 4 11 
£. s. d. 
586 5 41* 
3 IS 9 
£. s. d. 
565 1 1* 
£. s. d. 
594 0 6^* 
15 3 1 
558 1 6 
23 16 0 
552 6 7 
28 16 0 
565 1 1 
28 16 e 
578 17 5| 
586 17 6 
581 2 7 
593 17 1 
573 17 5i- 
Manures, — The amount expended on artificial manures annu- 
ally is from 200/. to 220/., and on feeding stuffs, — 
£. 
Linseed cake, 11 tons 1.32 
Decorticated cotton, 11 tons 100 
Wheat and barley meal, 190 measure .. 60 
Total for manures and feeding stuffs about 500 
* This sum includes items on account of making and repairing roads, draining, &c. 
t This is our estimate for keep of labourers during the harvest month, and no 
doubt the meu keep themselves for that, or less. But Mr. Forester is of opinion 
that in Shropshire it costs the farmer more to keep them, owing to the excessive 
and injurious quantity of beer consumed. When the labourers have money given 
to find themselves, the work is better, and he thinks more quickly done. The men 
are then always sober. 
