Farming of Cornwall. 
459 
fair (lay's labour, and also the prices for various kinds of job- 
work : — 
40 loads. 
40 to 60 do. 
240 barrows 
\ of an acre. 
1 acre. 
50 fagots. 
per acre. 
6rf. ditto, 
ditto. 
Old. ditto. 
Thrashing wheat by machine . 
Ditto barley .... 
Ditto oats ..... 
Carting earth with two men and cart 
Mixing manures* (loads all turned back) 
Wheeling manures . 
Ploughing for wheat . 
Ditto arishcs 
Reaping and binding wheat 
Mowing barley and oats 
Ditto meadow grass 
Ditto clover hay . 
Cutting and binding wood 
Stone hedging (both sides) per yard, 16^ feet 
Turf hedging per yard, 16^ feet 
Hoeing drilled turnips once, per acre 
Ditto ditto second time, ditto . . 
Ditto ditto broadcast, ditto 
Horse hoeing .... 
Thatching per square of 9 feet 
For drains 4 feet deep, 2 feet wide at top, 
and \\ foot wide at bottom, walled with 
stone and covered with the same material, 
18 feet run .... 
For every foot extra in depth . 
It would be unjust to the labourers of Cornwall were I, in a 
Report of this kind, not to notice their laudable exertions in the 
formation of " Friendly Societies, ' for supporting themselves in 
cases of sickness, accident, and old age, and at death to afford re- 
lief to relations, which are established in most of the agricultural 
parishes. I select five of these societies to show the system and 
mode of working:. 
Day Work. 
3 acres. 
Price. 
l5.8rf. per day 
\s. 8d. ditto. 
Is. 8d. ditto. 
3*. 6d. to 5*. 
2*. 
6*. to Is. 
is. to 5.y. 
Is. to 10*. 
35. 6d. 
Is. Ad. 
Ad. to Qd. 
Names of tlio T'aiisli or 
ViUage. 
When 
esta- 
blished. 
No. of 
Mem- 
bers. 
Subscriptions 
and Donations 
in 1843. 
Amount of 
E.\ponditure 
lu 1843. 
Caiiital in the 
National Debt 
Office or 
elsewliere. 
1S37 
125 
£. s. d. 
127 1 4 
£. s. d. 
89 3 9 
£. s. d. 
436 0 0 
1830 
123 
81 6 4 
45 5 lU 
350 0 0 
St. Stejjlien's, neat Laimceston 
1807 
100 
80 0 0 
CO 0 0 
337 0 0 
1785 
120 
90 0 0 
100 0 0 
100 0 0 
1830 
180 
117 0 0 
110 0 0 
400 0 
* The spade is seldom used ; but the shovel, a larger and more powerful 
instrument, is generally adopted, — hence the Cornish labourer seldom ex- 
hibits that crippled appearance in the back too frequently observable 
where the spade is habitual, 
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