WILL FARMING PAY?

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1356, 1 June 1887, Page 3

WILL FARMING PAY?

"Cockatoo," Waitahuna, writes:— ln my notes of last issue I said I would take an eariy opportunity of laying before your readers a practical illustration of the payibleness or otherwise of farming in this district. Appended are the receipts and expenditure of a hard - working cockatoo, which speak for themselves :—: —

" Receipts. Current price in Dunedin la 7d— gross proceeds , ... £237 10 0 Credit balance ... ... £7 5 6 It will be Been that nothing has been said about wear and tear on ploughs, harrows, reapers, chains and blocks, harness, and shoeing, so we may safely put the balance down for blacksmith's account, and let the farmer feed his family on fern-root for a year or two till the markets improve.

EXPENDITUEE. Ploughing ICD acreß, at 6s £30 0 0 100 bushels seed oats, at 2s ... ... 30 0 0 i tines of harrows, at Is each ... „, 15 0 0 I tine of roller, at la 6d ... ... 710 0 Sowing, at 6d per acre ... ... „. 210 0 Reaping— 2 men, 4 horses, and reaper, 10 acres per day— 3ss ... ... ... 17 10 0 4 binders at 9d per hour, 100 hours ... 15 0 0 6 men's board 2 weeks, at 10s weekly... 60 0 Horse feed 2 weeks, at 7s 6d each ... 3 0 0 Stooking 3 15 0 Stacking — 5 men, 6 days, or 60 hours, at 9d ... 11 5 0 Board, at 105... ... ... .„ 2 10 0 Horse keep, 7s 6d each ... ... 110 0 Ehreshing (average yield 30 bushels per acre)— 30CD bushels at 7s 6d 1115 0 666 sacks at 63 each ... ... ... 16 13 0 Wages— lo men, 36 hours, at 8d .., 10 0 0 3 days board of 12 men, 6 meals „, 214 0 3artage4milestoßtation,atldperbus... 1210 0 Railage, 53$ tons, 53 miles, at 9s 5d ... 25 3 9 Commission (2$ per cent) .„ ... 518 9 Total £230 4 6 ... £230 4