Second Year - Wheat. Manure, Lime applied every third or fourth fallow- Seed three bushels, at 7s.; and sowing, Reaping 10s., carrying and stacking 6s., Selling and carrying to market, Third Year― Clover. Twelve pounds of clover seed, at 9d., Bushel of ray grass, Sowing and harrowing, £ s. d. - 4 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 16 0 0 10 0 Mowing and making two crops, 7s. and 5s., 0 12 0 Carrying and stacking, 0 10 0 £1 17 0 0 9 0 One ploughing on clover ley, Seed five bushels, at 3s., Six tines of harrowing 6s., sowing and grooping 1s., Rolling 1s., weeding 1s., reaping 6s., and stacking 5s., Threshing six quarters, at 1s. 6d., Selling and carrying to market, · 0 5 0 £ s. d. Brought forward, 4 9 6 Add 10 per cent. on 47. 9s. 6d., - 090 4 18 6 Add farmer's profit per acre, or about 10 per The rent is here ascertained upon a middling clay soil at a moderate distance from the homestead, and with good roads for communication. If the soil be thin and of bad quality, deductions must be made according to the reduced quantity and value of the produce. It is evident from the above estimate, that when the average produce of an acre of land does not exceed 51. 8s. 6d., the cultivation will pay no rent, the expenses on good and bad land being nearly the same. The rent should advance as the value of produce arises above that sum. The following scale is regulated by the comparative value of produce, to show the variation of rent on inferior soils: A scale may also be formed to regulate the rent of such lands by the price of wheat, by the same method adopted for lands of the best quality. per bushel, per acre. If wheat sells for 4s. 6d. the rent will be 1s. And so on, increasing or diminishing 5s. per acre for every 1s. per bushel of variation in the price of wheat; a corresponding alteration being understood to take place in the value of labour and in the cost of other articles, which very seldom happens, but which ought to be steadily borne in mind. Having fixed the rent of the best land on the farm at 17. 17s. per acre, and the worst at 14s. 6d., the value of the intermediate qualities may be readily found by comparison; and the rent of each field on the farm may be stated as follows: |
