Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-11-08

rare sections where man may buy farm
as here, but not many. As rule, no farm
or owns his farm. The land is owned by
landlords; twelve of them own half of Scot
land. These land owners are the aristo-
cracy, and the grandest aristocracy of earth
If any man has right to be an aristocrat it
is he who owns the soil. The tenant farm
er hires the land of the landlord, generally
from 200 to 1000 acres. This gives large
system and large operations and better
management.
third class of men dependent upon
farming is the laborer who does the work
He generally has little ambition to better
his condition. He does his work, takes his
pay and spends it, and does not expect to
ever do anything else.
The rent of land depends wholly upon
the section it is in. It ranges in Ireland
from shilling to ninety pounds per year,
per acre. The average ls about ten dollars
per acre per year. This price could not be
obtained here, but there it is readily, and
there are more tenants than land. This
arrangement seems satisfactory to landlord
and tenants The tenant don't want to
own the land because he wants to put all
his capital into his farming operations, and
he cannot afford to own land The land
lord does not want to sell the land because
his Importance depends upon his land
Without it he could not hold his position in
life
Mr.. Mecclli, the famous English farmer,
told him thai he ought to have $100 per
year per acre to farm with. The English
never hesltate TO put into their farming all
the jney that will pay. 1t would be bet
tor If it were more 30 here. Half the money
in our savings bank should be invested in
our farming operations. Thoy have the
same trouble about scarcity and poorness
of labor that we have here. Many of their
best labOrers come to America. The aver
age English farm laborer gets about two
shillings per day for ordinary farm work
In harvest they get more Fifty pounds
per year is pretty good pay.
Steam p,owing in England is as much an
actual fixed fact as is steam saving of lum-
Der in New England. Many efforts to in
vent steam pillow to work, have been made,
but they have invariably failed. The steam
plows in England are made in gangs, gen.
orally of three plows; two of these gangs are
put upon carriage aud balanced in the
middle. At either end is an iron like a
brake on car, and by this the plowmau
guides the plow. The engine is an o. dl-
nary locomotive OF IL or IA horse power.
There being two gangs of plows, one fac
ing each way, there is no need of of turn
ing. They pillow about 10 inches deep.
A steam pillow costs about $40 900. They
are generally owned by men who make a
business of going about and plowing and
cultivating for a certain price per acre.
The price is about five dollars per acre. A
steam pillow plows from to 10 acres per
day.
A horse plow could hardly do as good
work in a clay soil as does a steamer and
another advantage is, one can have his
work done when he wants it, One of Mr..
Mecchi formulas il, Never use a man when
you can use horse, and never use horse
when you can use steam, and he practices
what he breaches. He plows, draws his
manure, cuts his hay and mixes his manure
by steam, and man-power is his last re-
sort