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g twice, @ 6d. 5 0 Casks and cooperage 8 0 --------- L4 13 0 ========= CR. L s. d. 10 hogsheads diminished by racking and waste to 8, @ 12s. 6d. 5 0 0 ======== Leaving a balance of 7s. for spoiling, &c., so there was not much profit in cider-making then. The same authority sets down the cost of planting an acre of apples as:-- L s. d. 132 trees, @ 2s. 13 4 0 (The custom had been to plant 160 trees to the acre, but this was considered too close.) Carriage per tree, @ 2d.; manure per tree, @ 3d.; planting per tree, @ 3d. 4 8 0 Interest on L17 12s. 0d. for fifteen years before orchard is profitable, @ 5 per cent. 13 2 6 Loss of half the rent of the land for the same period, @ 10s. an acre 7 10 0 Building cellarage for product per acre 5 0 0 --------- L43 4 6 ========= For this outlay the landowner would gain an additional rent of L1 a year, so that, according to this authority, growing cider fruit at that time paid neither landlord nor tenant. FOOTNOTES: [423] _Farmer's Letters_, i. 10. [424] _R.A.S.E. Journal_ (3rd Series), iii. 1. [425] See the _Hyp Doctor_, No. 49. [426] Tooke, _History of Prices_, i. 42. [427] Cf. this and Tull's character of servants with Defoe's accusation of their laziness. [428] Salisbury newspaper, quoted by Baker, _Seasons and Prices_, p. 187. [429] See _Autobiography of Wm. Stout_, ed. by J. Harland. [430] _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1742. [431] Baker, _op. cit._ p. 194. [432] _A Defence of the Farmers of Great Britain_ (1814), p. 30. [433] Tooke, _History of Prices_, i. 42. [434] See a curious pamphlet called _An Exhortation to all People to Consider the Afflicting Hand of God_ (1754), p. 6.
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