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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 12 November 1897, Page 7

MACHINES Need no puffing, they speak for themselves. Harvesting Return, ''ACTON ESTATE," for year ending 31st March, 1897. Acernge under Wheat, 000 ; Oats, 600. Wheat. Oats. Cost of Cutting and Binding ... ... £52 1 2 ... £27 16 6 Cost of Stooking ... " ... ... 45 0 0 ... 25 12 6 Cost of Stacking ... ... ... 112 12 0 ... It 10 1 Cost of Thatching ... ... ... 6 0 0 ... 13 o 0 Cost of Twine and Oil ... ... ,10 12 0 ... 20 8 0 Station Horse Labour at Is. per horse per day Cutting and Carting ... ... 21 It 0 ... 1 H 0 £208 8 2 ... £171 1 1 For 1500 acres makes an Average cost of ss. lOd. per acre. REMARKS. — No time was lost during Harvest, the weather being good, and this, coupled with the NEW MASREY-IIARRIS MACHINES, which worked Admirably, accounts for the Low Cost of Harvesting. (Signed) WILLIAM L. ALLAN, Manager New Zealand and Australian Land Co., Ltd. *J!ASSEY-HARRIS COMPANY, LIMITED, CRAWFORD STREET, DUNEDIN, HEREFORD STREET, CHRISTCHURCH, And Agencies in All the Principal Towns in New Zealand,