74 
The Labour Bill in Farming. 
The above figures represent the amount paid in hard cash. 
The value of the beer given was about 15/. or 20/. annually, 
according to the price of malt. Beer is given on this farm all 
the year round, at hay-time and harvest, as well as during drill- 
ing, sheep-washing, and clipping. Then there is the meat, &c., 
given to the men at sundry times from the house. To this may 
• be added cheap cottages, let at 52s. and 3/. per year, allotments 
., free, meat and beer at Christmas according to the size of the 
family; and three-quarters day given on Good Friday.* The 
reason of the year 1847 showing so small a gross amount of 
wages is accounted for by the fact that the out-going tenant paid 
for his own threshing. 
A valuable addition to the foregoing statement is the fol- 
lowing : 
Account of Wheat and Baelkt Crops upon the same Farm, and 
their Average Prices, together with the Weekly Wage paid to able- 
bodied men during the same periods. 
Wheat Crop. 
Price 
per 
Barley Crop. 
Price per 
Weekly 
Profit or loss per cent, on 
Average. 
Coomb. 
Average. 
Counib. 
Wage. 
Capiiul. 
C. 
B. 
p. 
s. 
d. 
C. 
B. 
p. 
d. 
s. 
1849 
9 
1 
0 
19 
0 
10 
2 
0 
14 
0 
9 
1850 
8 
0 
0 
20 
6 
10 
0 
0 
11 
0 
9 
1851 
8 
0 
0 
■ 20 
0 
11 
0 
0 
14 
6 
8 
Profit, 5J per cent. 
1852 
7 
2 
0 
23 
6 
11 
2 
0 
16 
0 
8 
PioHr, 10 „ 
1853 
7 
2 
0 
42 
0 
11 
0 
0 
19 
0 
9 
Not a farthing profit 
1854 
13 
0 
1 
36 
0 
13 
0 
0 
17 
0 
12 
1855 
8 
1 
2 
38 
0 
13 
2 
0 
19 
0 
12 
1856 
8 
3 
0 
35 
0 
11 
3 
0 
23 
0 
12 
1857 
9 
1 
1 
25 
0 
12 
0 
0 
19 
6 
11 
1858 
9 
0 
1 
23 
6 
9 
2 
3 
17 
0 
10 
1859 
9 
1 
2 
24 
0 
9 
3 
1 
13 
6 
10 
1860 
8 
0 
0 
27 
0 
11 
0 
2 
24 
0 
10 
1861 
9 
1 
1 
30 
3 
11 
0 
0 
20 
6 
11 
18t;2 
7 
0 
3 
24 
3 
11 
0 
1 
18 
6 
11 
1863 
10 
3 
1 
20 
6 
12 
3 
2 
18 
0 
10 
1864 
7 
0 
0 
20 
6 
11 
3 
2 
16 
0 
10 
' 1865 
9 
3 
3 
23 
0 
8 
2 
3 
17 
6 
10 
1866 
9 
1 
1 
28 
0 
10 
1 
0 
23 
6 
10 
1867 
9 
0 
0 
35 
0 
11 
0 
0 
20 
6 
11 
1868 
8 
3 
3 
26 
0 
9 
2 
0 
23 
6 
12 
1869 
'2 
1 
1 
22 
0 
9 
0 
0 
17 
0 
10 
1870 
0 
3 
27 
9 
6 
2 
1 
17 
9 
10 
Profit, 10 per cent. 
1871 
8 
0 
1 
29 
0 
11 
0 
3 
19 
6 
10 
7 ,. 
1872 
7 
0 
3 
26 
0 
9 
2 
2 
22 
0 
12 
11 9 )i 
1873 
7 
2 
1 
31 
0 
9 
2 
1 
24 
0 
13 
12 „ 
1874 
13 
The corn averages arc rather high in price, because, as a rule, 
none of the dross corn was sent to market, but was kept for con- 
sumption on the farm. The figures are trustworthy, and are of 
* The value of these extras ia reckoned by the farmer at Is. 6d. per acre. 
