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.