178 
Farm Capital. 
For a light-land farm of 200 acres of medium richness — 
£. s. d. 
Live Stock 1013 0 0 
Cultivations 272 9 2 
Labour 127 11 0 
Implemeuts 206 17 2 
Total £1619 17 4 
Or 8?. per acre. 
For a light-land farm of 200 acres with a richer description of 
pasture-land — 
£. s. d. 
Live Stock 1217 0 0 
Cultivations 272 9 2 
Labour 127 11 0 
Implemeuts 206 17 2 
Total £1823 17 4 
Or 9?. per acre. 
As so much of the capital required in farming depends upon 
the cost and economical application of manual labour, and more 
attention has been paid of late years to the comfort and condition of 
the agricultural labourer, I think that a short account of the mode 
in v.'hich I deal with my men will not only be interesting to those 
who are desirous of promoting their social improvement — a matter 
in which I am myself much interested, but will not be out of 
place in this Essay considered in a commercial light only. 
When I entered on my present farm, seven years ago, I found 
everything had been allowed to go out of repair — even the rick- 
pillars were broken down and the ricks built upon their ruins or 
upon the ground ; and hardly in any place did I find two un- 
broken rails standing together in the rickyard-fence. The 
labourers were dissatisfied, only partially employed, and even 
sent home at 8 or 12 o'clock in the day if the weather turned out 
unfavourable after they had come to work in the morning, thus 
being allowed to make only part wages however willing they 
might be to work. The landlord of course had the rick-pillars 
rebuilt and the fences repaired, and I set to work to put the 
labourer upon a different footing. 1 took for some days the 
opportunity of quietly watching the labourers who had previously 
been employed on the farm, at their work, and selected those who 
appeared most likely to answer my purpose. The wages paid 
at that time to the best men, when a whole week's work was done, 
were lis. per week from Michaelmas to Lady-day, and lis. to 
12s. per week, with a daily allowance of 1 quart of beer per man 
per day, from Lady-day till Michaelmas. There was an extra 
allowance in harvest-time of 1 quart of beer and 1 gallon of ale 
