TTie Labour Bill in Farming. 
83 
bv Mr. Lawson, the labour sheet for one year showed the cost 
I oi' labour to be '61. 5s. 2d. per acre, another year 21. 2s. 6d., 
i while the cost of farm-horses is put down at 43/. 18s. 9f</. 
I per annum. No wonder the experiment proved a financial 
failure. Against this instance of frolicsome farming, full of 
interest and amusement as it is to Mr. Lawson's readers, let me 
set some figures taken from the accounts of a heavy-land Eastern 
Counties farm of 367 acres, cultivated for profit and not as a 
social or farming experiment. These figures have been carefully 
prepared for my use in these pages, and show, upon a moderate 
1 holding, highly farmed and closely looked after, the proportions 
borne by wages to other outgoings in the Eastern Counties, 
during the last eight years. 
I Upon the 367 acres, the waste by house, garden, premises, 
! hedges, ditches, &c., would be 17 acres. Of the 350 remaining 
acres, 29 would be in pasture and 321 arable ; roots grown 
: would average — mangold from 15 to 20 acres; swede turnips, 
15 acres ; kohl rabi, 4 acres ; and the remainder white turnips. 
The farmer does not debit himself in his accounts with any 
allowance for depreciation upon machinery and implements. 
It is clear, also, that his profits cannot be safely tested unless 
we assume that on leaving the farm his live stock will fetch the 
I price he paid for stock on entering the farm. In other words, 
we must assume that his capital will be returned to him in full 
by the incoming tenant. Subject to these remarks, we seem to 
have here an instance of successful farming, to be accounted for 
in part by the quality of the land and probably also by the 
manageable size of the farm, which renders close personal super- 
vision possible. 
r. 
Balance of 
Receipts over 
Payments.* 
Cost of Labour. 
Rent 
Rates and 
Taxes. 
Other Payments, 
including Interest. 
Total Payments. 
£ «. d. 
£ «. 
d. 
£ 8. 
d. 
£ s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
d. 
66 
251 10 0 
522 15 
502 12 
2 
94 0 
10 
1095 
10 
6 
2214 19 
5i 
[67 
798 13 1 
567 2 
516 15 
3 
100 8 
0] 
1118 
15 
0 
2303 0 
11 
€8 
413 15 0 
601 17 
532 7 
3 
112 11 
8} 
1233 
9 
= 
2480 5 
9 
69 
84 18 lOJ 
563 9 
552 4 
0 
82 5 
10 
1286 
13 
3 
2484 12 
9| 
70 
445 19 2 
579 13 
2 
552 4 
0 
101 6 
6 
1497 
8 
1 
2730 11 
9 
71 
507 11 6 
560 1 
6 
552 4 
0 
76 19 
5 
1972 
13 
3 
3161 18 
2 
72 
394 1 9J 
664 7 
8J 
552 4 
0 
87 13 
8 
1831 
0 
6^ 
3135 5 
11 
73 
240 7 11§ 
716 4 
4 
548 19 
0 
70 7 
3i 
1474 
5 
8 
2809 16 
^ 
ige 
1— 
392 2 2 
596 19 
1 
538 13 8 
90 14 
2 
1438 
14 
5 
26(35 1 
* After deducting interest of £3800 at 4 per cent. 
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