The  Yorkshire  Farm-Prize  Competition , 1883. 
571 
£ s.  d. 
Brought  forward 289  16  0 
Fourth  lad’s  wage  yearly  14  0 0 
Fifth  lad  do 12  0 0 
Sixth  lad  do 12  0 0 
Least  lad  do 8 0 0 
Shepherd’s  wage  per  year  52  0 0 
House  rent  free  500 
1 lb.  butter  per  week  and  milk  found,  worth  ..  4 0 0 
Beast-man,  17s.  per  week  44  4 0 
Extra  for  harvest 580 
6 constant  labourers,  40  weeks  at  16s.  per  week  ..  192  0 0 
Ditto,  about  6 weeks  hoeing  turnips  at  8s.  per  acre 
twice  over,  they  earn  about  28s.  per  week  per 
man  50  0 0 
Ditto,  6 weeks  in  harvest  at  24s.  per  week,  and  I 
pay  the  foreman  9s.  per  week  to  board  them, 
amounting  to  33s 60  0 0 
1 man  slashes  the  hedges,  they  cost  about  20?.  per 
year  20  0 0 
The  rest  of  the  hedge-slasher’s  time  is  taken  up  in 
cleaning  hedges,  mending  up  gaps,  &c.,  and  other 
odd  jobs,  costs  say  other 25  0 0 
Extra  labour,  weeding  corn,  at  Is.  per  acre  ..  ..  15  0 0 
Extra  labour  on  threshing  days,  about  30  days’ 
work  20  6 0 
A few  days  before  harvest  I let  the  Irishmen  who 
do  the  harvest  work  3000  bundles  of  straw  to 
draw,  at  2s.  6c?.  per  100  3 15  0 
I also  let  the  said  Irishmen,  12  of  them,  the  corn 
to  tie  up,  stook,  fork  upon  the  waggons,  load 
and  team  upon  the  stack — the  farm  lads  drive 
the  waggons  to  and  from  the  field — for  8s.  per 
acre ; they  earn  upon  an  average  for  the  last 
7 years  9?.  per  man  for  about  5 weeks’  labour ; 
they  work  very  hard  indeed.  We  cut  all  the 
com  with  Bamlett’s  reapers  (manual  delivery) ; 
every  sheaf  is  tied  up  and  stooked  before  the 
men  leave  the  field  108  0 0 
Harvest  ale  costs  about 30  0 0 
The  other  part  of  the  year  25  0 0 
£995  3 0 
About  an  average  cost  per  year  of  a little  over  30s.  per  acre. 
The  amount  expended  upon  cake  for  the  last  seven  years  has 
been  on  the  average  608Z.,  or  about  20s.  per  acre. 
The  hedges  are  simply  excellent.  They  are  the  work  of  one 
man  who  has  trained  many  of  them  from  the  time  they  were 
planted  ; miles  of  them  are  perfectly  wedge-shaped  and  without 
a flaw,  clean,  and  having  the  land  cultivated  and  cropped  up  to 
their  roots:  1150  yards  of  strong  iron  fencing,  costing  3s.  per 
yard,  has  been  erected  in  the  park  by  Mr.  Watson. 
The  gates  and  roads  are  in  excellent  condition.  Most  of  the 
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