great and acknowledged superiority, the average of 2s. per quarter will be taken. The expense of selling and delivering must vary according to distance; for which, if supposed to be one day's work, 1s. per quarter may be allowed. The next labour required is securing the clover crop, which is generally cut the first time in June or July, and the second time in September. In the case of a moderately strong crop, the mowing and making into hay will be worth 8s. an acre, and the second crop about 2s. less. The carrying and stacking at moderate distances may be averaged at 8s. an acre for the first crop, and 6s. for the second. Notice has been sometimes taken of the pasturage after the second cutting; but as it is generally ploughed in with the seed furrow, the value need not be stated. In ploughing clover ley for wheat, one acre is found a good day's work for a man and two horses, which will require three bushels of seed. Sowing 10 acres a day by drill or by broadcast is reckoned a suffi cient day's work; and as it is yet doubtful what advantages, if any, arise from drilling except in a few particular situations, the advantages that may be occasionally derived may be allowed for any extra labour incurred. Clover ley will require four or five double tines of harrowing, and probably one rolling, and also water furrowing; and large weeds, if any, must be cut or pulled out. Nothing further is required till harvest, when the expense of reaping may be stated at 12s. an acre, carrying and stacking 5s. 6d., threshing 12s., and marketing 6s. Machinery will reduce the expense of threshing to one half, and if by inanimate power to one fifth. Having pointed out the labour required during the four years' course of husbandry, we now proceed with the necessary calculations of the expenses of each crop : Fourth ploughing, Harrowing and rolling, Couching, &c. last time, Sowing by drill or by broadcast, at an average, 0 3 0 0 1 0 - 0 7 6 5)3 1 6 Allowing the land to be limed once in three or four returns of the rotation, and the The fourth dressing is in many cases not required, which will diminish the expense by 10s. or 12s. ; and the lime is sometimes. not applied, but in that case more dung should be used. Barley - Second Year. One ploughing, Three tines of harrowing 3s., rolling 1s., Seed, four bushels, 16s. ; sowing 6d., Reaping 7s.; carrying and stacking 78., Winnowing and marketing, 0 10 0 - 0 10 0 £3 66 |
