458. 
Farming of Cornwall. 
HORSES. 
£. s. d. 
Cost- prices of a pair of horses 40 0 0 
Keep for 26 winter weeks, at 
lis. per week . . . 163 16 0 
Keep for 26 sammer weeks 
at 12s. per week . . . 140 8 0 
Interest 5 per cent, on cost 
price 18 0 0 
Wear and tear of horses . 26 0 0 
Gear for pair of horses . . 5 0 0 
Wear and tear of gear . . 4 10 0 
^Vages of one man, Is. 8</. 
per day 234 0 0 
Shoeing a pair of horses, 18*. 
per annum .... 820 
Farriery for 9 years, at 15s. 
per annum . • . . C 15 0 
Insurance of pair of horses 
for 9 years, the average 
value 33/. 16s. 8'i., at 50s. 
per cent., by tlie Royal 
Farmers' Insurance Com- 
pany 7 10 0 
654 1 0 
Deduct, sale of horses at 7/. 
eacli, at tlie termination of 
9 years 14 0 0 
640 1 0 
Ralance in favour of horses 
about 16/. 6s. 8(/. per ann. 147 7 G 
787 8 6 
OXEN. 
£. s. d. 
Cost price of 4 oxen . . 36 0 0 
Keep of 4 oxen for 9 years, 
15/. Is. 8rf. each . . . 543 0 0 
Interest 5 per cent, on cost 
price 16 4 0 
Gear for 4 oxen ... 140 
Wear and tear of gear, at 4s. 
per annum .... 1100 
Wages of man, at Is. %d. per 
day 234 0 0 
Wages of boy, 4 months in 
tlie year 21 12 0 
Insurance of 12 oxen for 9 
years, average value 41/. 
13s. id., including tlie im- 
provement, at 30s. per cent. 5 12 G 
Deduct, profit on sale of 3 
teams of oxen, at 12/. 
£.3G 0 0 
Deduct first cost on 
1 pair . . . 36 0 0 
859 8 6 
0 0 
787 
Human Labour. 
84. The Cornish peasantry are better feci and clothed, and 
their houses better furnished, than some thirty years since, and 
there is more appearance of comfort in their families. The wages 
of the men are about O^. per week, women 4s., boys from 3s. to 
5s., according to age and strength. We have very few allotments 
in the county, but most of the married labourers have a small 
plot of garden ground for the cultivation of their vegetables, and 
in some instances plots for the cultivation of potatoes. The 
labourers, generally speaking, are an orderly, peaceable, and con- 
tented race ; and it is a rare instance for a farmer to discharge 
them when he can afford to keep them. In proof of this, the 
" Cornwall Agricultural Association " offers every year ])remiums 
for agricultural labourers who have lived the longest period in one 
continuous service ; and taking the average of the servitudes for 
the last fifteen years, they exceed fifty-two years, and the com- 
petitors, too, are exceedingly numerous. The following scale will 
give the average quantity of work considered in the county as a 
