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AGRICULTURE 207 Taele XXXII Plan and Results of Estimations of the Compensation Value of Unexhausted Manure, startina from the Unginal Manure alue, that is, the Value deducting the constituents of increase in (Fattening) Live Weight only.

Foods.

Original Compensation Value of Unexhausted Manure. Manure Value, deducting Increase in Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Live Weight Last Year. Second Year. Third Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. Year. only.

Deduct One-half of Original Manure Value the Last Year, and One-third from One Ton. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1. Linseed. 1 19 2 0 19 7 0 13 1 8 9 5 10 3 11 s.2 2. Linseed cake. 2 11 11 16 0 0 17 4 11 7 7 9 5 2 3 3. Decorticated cotton cake 3 14 9 1 17 4 1 4 11 16 7 11 1 7 5 4 4. Palm-nut cake. 16 4 0 13 2 0 8 9 5. Undecorticated cotton cake 2 5 3 12 7 0 15 1 105 101 36 119 24 76 31 6. Cocoa-nut cake 1 19 10 0 19 11 0 13 3 8 10 5 11 3 11 2 7. Rape cake 2 16 5 1 8 3 0 18 10 12 7 8 5 5 7 3 8. Peas 1 16 5 0 18 3 0 12 2 8 115 5 3 7 9. Beans 2 1 11 1 0 11 0 13 11 9 3 ; 6 2 4 1 22 10. Lentils 2 0 8 1 0 4 0 13 7 9 1 ; 6 1 4 1 2 11. Tares (seed) 2 1 1 1 0 7 0 13 9 9 2 6 1 4 1 2 12. Maize 0 16 7 8 4 0 5 7 3 9 2 6 1 8 1 13. Wheat 0 18 11 9 6 0 6 4 4 3 2 10 1 11 1 14. Malt 0 17 7 0 8 10 0 5 11 3 11 2 7 1 9 1 15. Barley 0 17 2 0 8 7 0 5 9 3 10 2 7 1 9 1 16. Oats 0 19 9 0 9 11 0 6 7 4 5 2 11 1 11 17. Rice meal (0 18 6) (0 9 3) (0 6 2) (4 1) (2 9) (1 10) (11 18. Locust beans 19. 20. 21. 22.

Malt coombs Fine pollard Coarse pollard Bran

2 1 1 1

6 15 18 18

13 0 17 0 19 0 19

3 7 1 3

0 0 0 0

15 11 12 12

6 9 9 10

Year to Year. d. s. d. 7 5 11 9 0 7 9 5 9 9 9

1 1 1 1

1 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 3) (0

Total.

£ 2 3 5 1 3 2 4

s. 16 15 7 17 5 17 1

d. 8 0 8 11 4 4 7

1 1 1 1

1 2 3 3 3 j 2 3 2

12 0 19 19

7 2 0 6

9 0 10 0 9 0 9 0 10 0 10) (0

6 1 7 1 6 1 6 1 7 1 7) (1

4 7 5 4 8 6

2 6 5 11 5 9)

7 10 15 15

2 11 0 9

7 10 10 10

10 4 6 11 4 7 3 1 2 1 1 7 10 5 3 3 6 2 4 1 7 1 8 6 5 8 3 9 2 6 1 8 1 8 7 5 9 3 10 2 7 1 9 1 One Ton. Deduct Two-thirds of Original Manure Value the Last Year, and One-fifth from Year to Year. 23. Clover hay 17 0 0 9 0 7 2 5 9 4 7 3 8 2 11 1 24. Meadow hay 0 18 7 0 6 2 4 11 3 11 3 2 2 6 2 0 1 25. Pea straw 0 12 2 j 0 4 1 2 1 1 8 1 4 1 1 0 26. Oat straw 0 7 5 | 0 2 6 1 3 1 0 0 10 0 8 0 27. Wheat straw 0 6 6 0 2 2 1 2 0 11 0 9 0 7 0 28. Barley straw 0 6 5 0 2 2 1 2 0 11 0 9 0 7 0 29. Bean straw 0 11 5 0 3 10 2 0 1 7 1 3 1 0 0 Ten Tons. Deduct One half of Original Manure Value the Last Year, and One-third from Year to Year. 30. Potatoes. 2 0 10 1 0 5 0 13 7 9 1 4 1 2 9 1 10 1 31. Carrots 1 7 0 13 9 0 9 2 6 1 2 9 ] 10 1 3 0 32. Parsnips. 1 15 0 17 6 0 11 8 7 9 3 5 2 3 1 6 1 33. Mangel wurzels 1 11 0 15 10 0 10 7 7 1 3 2 2 1 1 5 0 34. Swedish turnips 1 9 0 14 7 0 9 9 6 6 2 11 1 11 35. Yellow turnips (1 5 (0 12 6) (0 8 4) (5 7) (3 9) (2 6) (1 8) (11 31) (00 36. White turnips 1 5 10 0 12 11 0 8 7 5 9 3 10 2 7 1 9 1 2 0

5 1 1 2

3 2 2 2

10 3

1 17 1 5

10 6 6 6 10

0 0 0 0 0

16 10 9 9 16

11 4 3 3 1

3 2 19 10 1 19 0 2 10 11 2 5 10 2 2 9) (1 16 9 1 7

3 10 1 2) 4

for the last year, and the succeeding seven columns that or Lincolnshire farm under the ordinary four-course rotation, for each succeeding year to the eighth. The last column with meat and grain only sold, and the roots fed partly on the gives the total compensation value for the eight years’ con- land and partly in the yards. Let it be assumed, further, that sumption. It may seem at first sight that a deduction of the land is thoroughly clean, and that the farm is in every 50 per cent, from the original manure value of the food respect in good order when given up. The essential basis used in the last year is large. Allowance has to be made, of the system of estimate and valuation of the unexhausted however, for all losses to which the manure may be sub- residue adopted is the assumption of gradual accumulation ject, which may be considerable, especially if much of the within the soil, and of slow recovery from it. Suppose food is consumed in the yards; and it has to be borne in ; then that linseed cake had been used annually for eight mind that the money paid for compensation will not yield years, at the average rate of one ton over eight acres each its full return for a long time. Only half the original year, or of one ton per acre in eight years. Each acre manure value would, therefore, be allowed if the food were would thus on the average receive, either in farmyard only used one year; and all scales of allowance arranged manure or directly by the feeding with roots or clover on by farmers’ clubs assume the consumption for more than the land, the manure from the consumption of one ton of one year. Nevertheless, if the food is used for eight years, linseed cake in eight years, or at the average rate of oneor more, it will be seen that the total allowance consider- eighth of a ton, or 2^ cwt., per acre per annum. ably exceeds the original manure value of one year’s conThe first column of Table XXXII. shows that the total sumption—the allowance made for the accumulation or original manure value of one ton of linseed cake conbringing it up to from one and a third to one and a half sumed that is, the value deducting only the constituents as much as the original manure value. stored up in the animal—is estimated to be £2, 11s. lid. , In order to test the applicability of the scale of com- j The subsequent columns of the same table show the 1 pensation proposed, the case may be considered of a Norfolk estimated compensation value of the unexhausted residue