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Reports on Steam Cultivation. 
the cultivation of land by steam-power, as far as at present prac- 
ticable, upon your Grace's estates in Northumberland, having 
divided the subject under the following heads : — 
1st. The cost of steam-engines and tackle. 
2nd. The extent, qualit}", and position, of land to which 
steam could be beneficially applied in cultivation. 
3rd. The profitable application of the capital employed. 
4th. The probable increase of produce, by deeper and more 
perfect cultivation, and the saving effected in the 
maintenance of plough-horses. 
1st. Since your Grace's allusion to this subject, at the meeting 
of the Northumberland Agricultural Society, held at Cornhill in 
July last, I communicated with Messrs. Fowler, of Leeds, who 
forwai'dcd to me the following estimate for the supply of engines 
and tackle : — 
£ s. d. 
Two 12-liorse engines complete 1200 0 0 
One 4- furrow plough with steel scnifes .. .. 92 0 0 
One 7-tine cultivator G5 0 0 
800 yards of steel rope 84 0 0 
10 porters 10 0 0 
One large harrow 50 0 0 
One water-cart with pump 25 0 0 
Making an entire cost of 1520 0 0 
Or, if only 10-liorse engines were used .. .. 14S(j 0 0 
It was decided to order the engines of 12-horse power, and 
they have proved far superior to those of lO-horse power. The 
capital sum of 1526Z. for engines and apparatus and the cost of 
working them for a year form the basis of my estimate upon 
the entire scheme as follows : — 
Foreman enginemau (whom it would be neces- 
sary to engage for a year) at 25s. per week, or 
say 50 weeks 
Second engineman at 21s. per week for say 215 
work days 
Ploughman engineman at 18s. per week 
One boy at 9s. per week 
One boy at Os. per week 
Wear and tear, oil and repaii's 
"Wear and tear of ropes and plough 
For "reserved fund" for depreciation of ca^iital .. 
Interest upon, say, 1500?. capital at 5 per cent 
Making a total of 
The tenants have undertaken to supply water, which will take 
a man, and one, or perhaps two horses per day, when the engines 
£ 
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37 
12 
6 
32 
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16 
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6 
10 
15 
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70 
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90 
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100 
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75 
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494 
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