Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land eBook

William Wentworth
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 352 pages of information about Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land.

Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land eBook

William Wentworth
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 352 pages of information about Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land.

For each foot passenger 0 0 3
A single horse 0 1 0
A single horse chaise 0 1 6
A chaise with 2 or more horses 0 2 6
A cart with 1 horse or bullock 0 2 6
Each additional horse or bullock 0 0 3
Waggons, or 4 wheeled carriages, with 3 horses or bullocks 0 2 0
Each horse or bullock 0 0 3
Each head of cattle not in draft, under 6 0 0 9
Ditto ditto under 20 0 0 6
Every score 0 7 6
Every sheep, goat, or pig, under a score 0 0 1
Ditto ditto per score 0 1 0
Ditto ditto per hundred 0 4 0

The unweaned young of every kind, half price.

Tolls to be taken at the Bridge over the Chain of Ponds, near Windsor.

For a single horse 0 0 3
A cart and horse, or two bullocks 0 0 6
Ditto with more than two 0 0 9
A waggon with 3 horses or 4 bullocks 0 1 0
Ditto with more 0 1 3
A single horse chaise 0 1 0
A four-wheel carriage 0 1 6
Horned cattle, each 0 0 2
Sheep and pigs, per score 0 1 0

The Colonial Garden.

Potatoes.

For a general winter crop in field or garden, should be planted from the end of January to the end of February, or even the beginning of March, rather than lose the planting; and they will come into use in winter, when cabbages and other vegetables run to seed.  The ground should if possible be prepared a month before the planting, and a preference given by the country gardener to new ground, or dry wheat stubble, where the soil is light.  The town gardener should keep his ground in a good state by frequent light manuring.

The sets made choice of should be the produce of the last winter crop; and when planted should have a covering of light manure; without which the ground will be impoverished; but with such assistance be improved.

The best potatoes to preserve for sets are of a middle size, as well for profit as security; for if the largest are made use of, there must be a considerable waste; and those of the dwarf kind should be rejected, from their degeneracy and weakness.

An experienced gardener, who has been a settler here more than twenty years, plants his seed potatoes uncut for the winter crop; his reason for which is, that if they are cut they are likely to perish in the ground, from the rains of March; which will not be the case if put in whole.

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