1803.] Obfervattom on Tythesl 6c 



Take the crop on a rich field of loam or clay at five quarters 

 per acre on an average, inde - ^ qrs. o bu/h, 



DedmSt feed, on an average of grains, 4 bufti. 

 corn for working ftock 6 



ditto for farm fervants 3 



ditto for incidental expences, 

 fuch as harved: work, tear 

 and wear, 8cc, - 4 



which leaves a difpofeable balance of two quarters feven bufhels 

 per acre, as a fund from which tythe can be paid ; but as the whole 

 crop is tytheablc, the amount thereof is four bulliels, or nearly 

 17 per cent, on the difpofeable produce. 



Take the crop on thin clay, or moorifh foil, at three quarters 

 on an average, ifide . 3 qrs. 



Deduct feed - 4 bufh. 



Horfe corn - 6 



Farm fervants - 3 



Incidentals . 3 



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which leaves a difpofeable balance of one quarter per acre as a 

 fund from which tythe can be paid. The tythe of three quar- 

 ters is two bufhels, two pecks, or thereby, or nearly 32 per cent, 

 on the dilpofeable produce ; though, in the laft cafe, I have Ijat- 

 ed the incidental expences at one bufhel per acre lefs than in the 

 other, which, where good management is pra(Slifed, may be a 

 queftionable circumflance. 



Thus it appears, that the pofTeflbr of a good foil, who raifes 

 five quarters per acre, pays tythe, when ic is colleaed in kind, 

 at the rate of ij per cent, of the grain remaining on hand, after 

 the expences of working the fame are defrayed ; while the pof- 

 feflbr of inferior foils, who raifes three quarters per acre, pays at 

 the rate oi ^l per cent, though the tax, at firft fight, is precife- 

 ly the fame in both cafes. After this ftatement, which, it is 

 prelumed, as a general illuftration, will not be found far from 

 the truth, can it excite furprife, that wafte lands and inferior 

 foils remain unimproved among our font hern neighbours ? 



I might now fiiow in what refpe^ tythes prevent the cultiva- 

 tion of wafte lands, were I not fully fenfible that few people are 

 fo Ignorant as to deny the truth of this propofition. Indeed, to 

 attack tythes merely upon account of their coniequences, is little 

 pettier than attacking a man of ftraw, who is incapable of mak- 



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