278

ON THE RURAL ECONOMY

Brought forward, L. 40 0 0

6 ploughmen at L. 35, ... 210 0 0

2 labourers at L. 30, - - - 60 0 0

Occasional labourers,—gathering weeds, spreading dung,

hoeing drilled crops, cleaning grain, &c. - 60 0 0

Wright, smith, and saddler, for repairs only, - 50 0 0

• Horses, 12 horses, 15 quarters ofoats for each, 180

1 ditto, - 10 , _

190 at 25 s. L.237 10 0Grass and tares for soiling atL, 7 each, - 91 0 0

1300 stones, (22 lb.) hay at 10 d. 54 3 4Potatoes, yams, or Swedish tur-nips, three acres at L. 7, 10s. 22 10 0

- 405 3 4

Seed for 200 acres, 100 of wheat, 50 of beans, and50 of oats, at an average 25 s. per acre, hence25 X 200, - . 250 0 0

Carryforward, L. 1075 3 4

indeed as any servant on the farm. A remuneration for attending reapers inharvest, hay-makers, women and boys, when gathering weeds, hoeing drilledcrops, &c. is quite distinct from profits. To confine his attention to any one ofthese operations, instead of keeping a watchful eye over the whole, would be at-tended with loss, in almost every case.

* The quantity and price of the oats are both given upon the supposition that

part of them are light, such as are driven out by the fanners in cleaning the

marketable grain. For this reason the quantity is a little more, and the pricesomewhat lower, than have been usually charged. No charge is made for thestraw consumed by the horses, because it is not placed to the credit of the graincrops in the subsequent calculations. The straw and dung are understood to ba-lance each other. The consumption of the oats is as follows.

15 quarters oats — 120 bushels x ® feeds —■ 9G0 feeds.

5 feeds daily for 8 months — 243 days r= 729

2 feeds daily for 4 months — 122 days — 244

- 973 feeds.