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Some Minor Farm Crops. 
of the teazles is rarely successful for more than one year. 
Should the farmer be unable to find a purchaser amongst 
the manufacturers he is boycotted by the merchants, and is 
driven to sell at less than the current rates, or to keep his 
teazles in stock — a course apt to lead to financial embarrassment. 
The price paid for teazles varies according to the quality 
and the yield. Within the last four years the prices paid by 
the cloth-dressers have risen as follows : — 
Normandy Teazles. 
Cut teazles, 50 mm. X 40 mm., from 15/. 5s. to 18/. per pack of 14,400 
Middlings from 6s. 9 d. to 8s. 0 d. per 1,000 
Buttons . . . . . ,, 4s. 9 d. to 5s. 9 d. per 1,000 
While the growers of 
English teazles have 
received advances as 
follows : — 
& s. 
d. 
1909. Best teazles 
• • • • • 
3 12 
6 
per 20,000 
Buttons 
• • • • • 
2 0 
0 
1912. Best teazles 
• • • • • 
7 0 
0 
? ) 
Buttons 
• • • • • 
3 10 
0 
5 ) 
In Somersetshire 
a custom known as 
“ growing to half ” 
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ment with a professional teazle grower to provide special 
land and ploughing for the crop. The farmer may be paid for 
this at the rate of from 21. to 51. per acre, but 71. is not 
infrequently paid for very prolific land. The seed is supplied 
by the grower, and all the subsequent expenses are shared 
equally between the grower and the farmer. When the crop 
has been sold and placed on rail the proceeds are shared equally 
between farmer and grower. The following is a farmer's 
record of such a transaction during the eighteen months 
April, 1908, to September, 1909 : — 
1908. 
Expenditure. 
Rent and ploughing for seed land 8a. Or 25p. 
Working ground (spuddling) under plants 3a. Or. 25p. 
Pulling and planting 117,000 plants for 6a. 2r. 8p. 
1909. 
Working teazles three times, 6a. 2r. 8p. at 50s. per acre 
Cutting 54 packs at 7s. 6d. per pack .... 
Tying 54 packs at 6s. 6d. 
Cutting and tying, 1 pack 5 staffs at 14s. 
Expenses loading teazles on rail ..... 
Rent of land for second year, 6a. 2r. 8p. at 45s. per acre 
Haulage of teazles from field to shed .... 
Extra expense, hauling plants from one farm to another 
10 loads at 7s 
£ 
s. 
d. 
9 
0 
0 
9 
3 
6 
9 
15 
0 
16 
17 
6 
20 
5 
0 
17 
11 
0 
16 
0 
13 
0 
14 
14 
9 
2 
17 
6 
101 
13 
3 
3 
10 
0 
105 
3 
3 
