Grain Crops.
. '• ♦"■ — : — Mr Fluffh Clements, writing- on tin cost of cultivation in England says From the 'average cost of the various items making up the tota cost ol the production of the eevera crops raised, which I have calculated it will be foun I that the expense incurred in the cultivation of the lain is excessive in"" many- parts ot the country, and do-s not produce, ai <*xtra return at all, proportionate wirl the increased expenditure. In Eng Ixnd the average- cost per acre fo gross rent for the growth of whoa ia about £1 18s 7 A ; for seed, 14 7d; for manure, £1 14s 8d ; fo Cultivation by'hand or steam power including harvesting,' £2 3s; fo labour, including threshing am marketing, l7s Bd, «nd for sundries including*, trademen's bills, tfcc, 4 sd-r-making a total of nearly £7 13s
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 40, 6 September 1883, Page 3
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143Grain Crops. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 40, 6 September 1883, Page 3
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