FACTS FOR FARMERS. STEAM PLOUGHING.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 121, 13 February 1873, Page 2

FACTS FOR FARMERS. STEAM PLOUGHING.

A farmer writing to the Tmivs from Woolston Bticks, gives the following as the work performed by him with a steatii >plough :—: — IS72— Sept. 14. Finished harvest the 17th, under steam cultivation. Sept. 23. Sent the engine and cultivator to a neighbour to Avoik a bit of bean stubbfe". Sept. 24. Staited the steam power smasher on Ko 2 light land bean stubble, 13 acres, and- did six acres. Sept. 2."). Finished the 13 acres at 500 p in. Sept. 2C> Shifted the tackle' to 170. 2 heavy laml bean stubble, 29 acres, and did seven acres. Sept. 27. Did about seven acres. Sept. 28. Did about eight acres. Sept. 29. Sunday. Sept. 30. Finished fie 29 acres at 610p m. The cost of the 42 acres stand thus: — consumption of coal 3 tons 13 cwt

Or an average of os jk r anvc, Oct. 1. Shifted the . tackle to No. 1; heavy land, 37 acre"!, wheat stubble ; then started the steam-power combined rulger and snbsorier, and Uifl about five acicst Oct. 2 " Did about six acics. Oct. .'>. Did about six acres. Oct. 4. Did about bix acies. Oct. 5. Did about six acies. Oct. 6. Sunday. Oct. 7. Did about six acres. Oct 8. Finished No. 1, 37 acres, at 9 si.m. Then shifted to No. 3," heavy Mud", barley stuble, 36 acres, and did three acres. Oct. 9." Wot half day : did threo acres. Oct. 10. Wet afternoon, yet worked on, and did six a-TCfi. Oct 11. Drti, after a shift of tiwlilo, five acres.Oct. 1 2. Did five acres. Wet aftoruoon. Oct. 13. Sunday. Oct. 14? Ditt 8i x aerra. Oct. 15. Did six acres. Och 16. Finished No 3, 36>acros, at 11.2^ a.m.: then shifted the tackle to No. 3 light land, part No. 1, five acres, and did the three acres. Opt. 17." Finished tlio five lures afc 1113 a.m.; then shifted the tackle 2J mrles, to lAnighton, to give a neighbour a leg up. Consumption of coal fop the 78 acres, 8 tons 1 H c« t. Tho cost of 'this w ork stands thus :—

Or an average of C>* 4\d. per acre. This year's work has been clone with.-Ono very old rope broken from end to end, and one thai has been in work four year-t, the daily breakages -of thr rope being numerous, yet the increased coat per acre over last j'ear is only lid.

The Bar AXJ) thi; I'uEid. — Mr Austin, in tho Gentleman's Magazine, recalls, in some notes on "The Bar and the Prces," how short a time it is since the Press really entered upon its present position of dignity and independence. Many jcars ago resolutions were passed by tho members of the Oxford and Western Circuits declaring it to be incompatible with the status of a barrister to report proceedings for the public I're^. Tue resolution on the Oxford Circuit was aimed at Mr Cookc Evans, who then represented The Times, and on the Western Circuit, at Mr 11. T. Colo (now n Queen* Counsel), who then reported for the Morning Chronicle. The dictum of the Oxford and Western Circuits was warmly resented by tho Press. By way of retaliation The Times adopted a plan which was followed by many other journal*, and which' soon led to the rescinding of the obnoxious resolutions. Tliie leading journal stated that it was of no importance to the general public, howe\er important it might be to the legal gentlemen themselves, to know what particular counsel appeared in any case. Accordingly instructions were given to The Time*' representatives on the Oxford and Western Circuits to suppress the names of all barristers who appeared in cases reported in that paper. Ilcnco for some time in the reports of these circuits the public read rhat " the counsel fur the plaintiff," " tho counsel for the defendant," "the counsel for the prosecution," and "tho conuiHcl for the prisoner ," said or did so and so Tbia \\m a serious matter for the Bar, and no doubt materially hastened the withdrawal of the objectionable stigruiy&ought to be cast upjn the JL'rcss. ___

Men, at 103 per day for six days 7oal, 3 tons 13 cwt ,at 14s Dil , at Qfl per day for six ilavs . . . Extras, at l&per acre for •ii'acrea£4 IG U 2 10 0 0 4 G It 3 0 P. !^1

£ s. d. Men, 14 i (lay*, at 18s 5(1 per day ... 13 8 3 Coal, 8 tons M cwt., at 16s .. 619 6 Oil, at 9d. per day for ll\ da\s . 010 10 Extras, Is. 6d. per acre for 78 acres .. 517 0 T^tal £24 1G 7"