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Which gives a surplus over the expenses of produc- 

 tion, as exemplified before, of 6. 4s. 6d., or 

 nearly 18s. an acre. Yet, with the average price 

 of 54s. a quarter, the poor strong clay lands, which 

 cannot be cultivated without a fallow every third 

 year, will yield scarcely any rent. For though the 

 expenses of producing the fallow wheat crop, and 

 the succeeding bean or oat crop, would be less in 

 consequence of the produce being less, and, there- 

 fore, less threshing, &c., yet the expenses could 

 not, under ordinary management, be less than 9. ; 

 and the produce of the wheat crop, at 22 bushels 

 an acre, at 54s. a quarter, and the bean crop 20 

 bushels an acre, at 36s. a quarter, would be worth 

 11. ISs. 6d., or 2. 18s. 6d. beyond the expenses, 

 which would be 19s. 6d. an acre; the surplus to 

 be divided between landlord and tenant. Farms 

 of this poor quality of land keep little stock be- 

 yond the horses employed to till them, and which 

 consume a considerable share of the produce ; 

 there is, therefore, less capital employed upon 

 them and, consequently, less profit per acre for 

 the cultivator than upon farms of a better quality, 

 which require more capital. This surplus beyond 

 the expenses of cultivation may be fairly divided 

 between landlord and tenant, which would give 

 9s. 9d. an acre to the tenant as profit, and 9s. 9d. 

 an acre to the landlord as rent ; and this would 

 be a reduction of about 50 percent, on the average 

 rental of this kind of land. These last examples, 

 though they have particular reference to strong 



