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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71
Cost of Working a Farm
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Cost of Working a Farm.
As this is, of all information, the most essential) to the settler, the following particulars will prove of interest.
Five hundred acres of land in New Zealand can be worked at less cost than one hundred acres in England.
The contract prices in connection with cultivation are approximately—
| Ploughing | 4s. 6d. to 6s. per acre. |
| Sowing | 1s. 6d. per acre. |
| Rolling | 9d. per acre. |
| Harrowing | 2s. 6d. per acre. |
| Seed | 1¼ bushels @ 4s. |
| Reaping, binding, stookit, stacking, 10s. 6d. to 15s. per acre. | |
| Threshing | 3d. per bushel wheat. |
| Threshing | 2d. per bushel oats. |
| Carriage and railway, say 1s. 6d. per acre. | |
| Shearers (without rations), 15s. to 17s. 6d per 100 sheep shorn. | |
| Reapers | 10s. to 12s. per acre., |
| Mowers | 3s. to 5s. |
Note.—Farm labourer are usually boarded and loged. No beer or beer money is given to servants, and the cost of keeping them is less than it is in England.