176 
Farm Capital. 
£. s. d. 
The above 25 acres of barley and 25 acres of wheat will require 
weedini;, and the 5 acres of beans or peas will require hoeing, 
at a probable expense of 4s. per acre 11 0 0 
The 25 acres of barley will cost about 4s. Gd. an acre mowing ; 
5s. Gd. turning, cocking, carting, raking, and stacking, including 
team labour ; Is. paring and finishing ricks ; and Is. Gd. 
thatching ; in all, 12s. Gd. per acre 15 12 6 
The 25 acres of wheat will cost about 12s. an acre reaping; 3s. Gd. 
carting and stacking ; Is. paring and finishing ricks ; and Is. Gd. 
thatcliing ; in all, 17s. Gd. per acre 21 17 6 
The 5 acres of beans or peas will cost about 9s. an acre hacking ; 
3s. Gd. carting and stacking ; Is. paring and finishing ; and 
Is. Gd. thatching ; in all, 15s. per acre 3 15 0 
The 20 acres of clovcr-haj-, if no jiart is grazed with sheep, will 
cost, by the time it is stacked and thatched, about 15s. -per acre, or 15 0 0 
For the purpose of comparison with the foregoing estimate for a 
clay farm, I must here insert the same expense for cutting and 
harvesting the 30 acres of meadow-hay, 18s. per acre .. .. 27 0 0 
There will also be reqiiired 3 months' wages without beer for 4 
men — a waggoner, a sliepherd, and two laljourers — say 13s. each 
per week, and a boy at 3s. Gd. per week 33 6 0 
Total £127 11 0 
This will, I believe, be sufficient, as the turnip-hoeing and also 
the harvesting the corn, &c., are included above under their 
several heads. 
A farmer occupying this kind of soil would most probably 
winter breeding-ewes on his grass-land instead of shear-hogs, as 
estimated for on the clay-land, but at much the same cost. After 
drawing part of his turnips off for the beasts to eat with the straw 
in the yards, he would consume the remainder on the land by 
means of the lambs. If he had a good average crop of turnips, 
he might calculate upon their carrying 15 lambs per acre for the 
16 winter weeks. As these would correspond in value, though 
not in numbers, to the sheep required to consume the vetches on 
the clay-land, I do not propose to make any difference under the 
head of live-stock for a light-land farm of moderate richness. 
A lighter class of horse could also be used ; but if the farmer 
looked forward to selling them at 6 years old for first-class farm- 
horses, he would not be able to make any material deduction in 
their first cost. It may, however, be generally assumed that one 
team, whether it require to be of 4 horses, 3 horses, or 2 horses, 
will cultivate 80 acres of land in due course of husbandry. 
There would also be some little difference in particular imple- 
ments from those above specified in details; but it would be 
extending this Paper to too great a length to recapitulate them. 
The principal alterations would be, the substitution of a third 
iron plough for the two wooden ones, and the addition of a turnip- 
drill, a turnip-cutter, and three sets of G O tackle. But I do 
not think there would be any very material difference in the total 
