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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 26 November 1897, Page 7

MACHINES Jveed no puffing, they speak for themselves, Harvesting Return, " ACTON ESTATE," for year ending 31st March, 1897. Aceiage under Wheat, 900 ; Oats, 600. Wheat. Oats. Cost of Cutting and Binding ... ... £52 1 2 ... £27 16 6 Cost of Stooking ... ... ... 45 9 0 ... 2b 12 $ Cost of Stacking ... ... ... 112 12 0 ... It 10 1 Cost of Thatching ... ... ... 6 0 0 ... 13 0 0 Cost of Twine and Oil ... ... «0 12 0 ... 20 8 0 Station Horse Labour at Is. per horse per day Cutting aud Carting ... ... 21 U 0 ... 1 14 0 £2G$ 8 2 ... £171 1 1 For 1500 acres makes an Average cost of 53. lOd. per acre. REMARKS. — No time was lost during Harvest, the weather being good, and this, coupled with the NEW MASREY-HA.RRIS MACHINES, which worked Admirably, accounts for the Low Cost of Harvesting, (Signed) WILLIAM L. ALLAN, Manager New Zealand and Australian Land Co., Ltd. M ASSET-HARRIS COMPANY, LIMITED, CRAWFORD STREET, DUKEDIN, HEREFORD STREET, CHRISTCHITUCII, And Agencies in All the Principal Towns in New Zealand.