Hoes.
clean the locks of fences of every thing but the good grasses.
a laborer will weed 500. corn hills a day flush.
2. laborers will follow one plough & weed the intervals between the hills.
a laborer will grub from half an acre to an acre a week of common bushy land in winter
2. hands grubbed the grave yard 80. f. sq. = 1/7 acre in 3½ hours.
1. do will grub 1¼ acre a week in summer, of the worst woodlands. inclosed lands in thicket are worse.
the price of grubbing is 24/ pr acre in Augusta, & cutting down & cutting up the large timber ready for burning is 16/
Axes.
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