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does not reckon his labour at anything, and we do not know 
how many men he is worth. 
Four labourers arc kept- 
Cowman at 17s. a week and cottage. 
Shepherd „ 15s. „ ,, 
Labourer „ 15s. „ and no cottage. 
„ ,, 14s. „ and cottage. 
Carter in the house at .. £12 Os. + board and lodgings ., £'26 
Boy „ .. £ 4 10s. + „ „ £26 
To the labourers' wages 40s. are added for 10 weeks harvest 
wages instead of food or drink. The hours of work are from six 
to six with half an hour out for breakfast and one hour for dinner, 
but in harvest they only take the time occupied in eating their 
meals, no extra hands are put on, each man is expected to 
harvest 12 acres of a good crop. In the winter a man and a 
strong lad attend to the 80 cattle, one day they are occupied in 
preparing the food, getting in roots and fodder, and next day 
they work the engine, pulping, cutting, grinding, and steaming 
what is needed for the four feeds given them daily. 
Feedivg-stuffs and 3Ianure.— Vhe sum of 35s. %d. per acre 
was spent last year on these items, the larger part, 33s. 6f/., 
being wisely spent on purchased food. 
Accounts were carefully and accurately kept by Mr. Price, 
jun., with a valuation and balance-sheet made up to March 25th 
in each year in a proper manner. 
Fences. — The fences are good, the gates being in good repair 
and painted ; between the grass and cornfields the gates were 
nailed and drawn with thorns so that we had difficulty in getting 
into a field or out of it. There is not much timber on the 
plough-land, which is a great advantage, for no one can keep 
good fences or grow good crops under trees. The landlord 
finds material for repairs. 
Inqn'ovements.- — ^The road to the house from the public road 
has been made by the tenant at his own cost, and is three-quarters 
of a mile long. The large fold-yard is very unlike many yards, 
it is level and paved with blue bricks. When Mr. Price became 
tenant the yard was hollow and dirty, stagnant water lay in it 
or found its way into the well, which, as is usual, stands between, 
the yard and the back door. The cattle used to be turned out 
for water into the grass-fields, and they trod the turf into a 
quagmire for some distance ; now, one may walk about inside 
the yard or out, witliout inconvenience. Mr. Price did not 
approve of the quagmire nor of the spoiled water of the well^ 
for it could not be used ; nor the inconvenience and loss 
attendant on the men going round the yard, or across it, treading 
the cowdung into the food on the mixing-lloors. He, therefore. 
