Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 465

A minor system of renting or letting has lately been introduced by many of the northern settlers in letting out their cultivation paddocks or enclosed fields to emigrants.
Most of those who undertake engagements of this description being men of families, the cleared land for cultivation on some stations being from twenty five to thirty and on some stations forty acres or upwards. - The arrangement with one individual being for leave to cultivate within the fences, using his own ploughs, oxen & every other implement. In payment of which to retain Yearly in a marketable condition the whole produce of wheat of the fields, at present upwards of sixty acres with the exception of what is required for his own or his families use or subsistence at ½ a bushel. I find that twenty bushel of wheat to an acre is fair calculation and at three shillings a bushel returns.
£3. 0. 0

VALUE OF LABOUR ATTENDING THE PRODUCE OF AN ACRE

Seed wheat 1 bushel to an acre £... .5 .0

Ploughing & harrowing                      1 0 0
Thrashing and a dry ration of
beef and flour                                    0 12. 0
Reaping                                           0 12. 0
Stacking & housing                           0    5 0
                                                          2. 14.0
                                                           1. 6.0
leaving a surplus to each ace of six shillings
Sixty acres at a surplus of 6/- to each more gives
£18 per annum to cover every expense, say for oxen implements & wage, a very small remuneration certainly, informing me that a man to be his own master will submit to many inconveniences - the person gets a hut to live in from the lessee of the station -
At an other station the emigrants have a more favourable engagement - They have land within the fences, the use of Oxen, and harness from the lessee, his ploughs, harrows & in proper condition & working order also his barn to thrash in. The emigrants can draw on the stores of the lessee for his supplies of tea, sugar, beef, flour tobacco etc.etc. in anticipation of his future crop and is paid at for shillings a bushel for his wheat. The whole produce of wheat with the exception of what is required for the use of his family to be
delivered to the lessee of the station. Ploughing,Reaping, thrashing and every other expense to be performed or paid for by the emigrant.
The general arrangement appears to be generally adopted at the numerous stations in

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