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what was the increase of produce from the land in 

 my own hands compared with the produce of the 

 same land when let to tenants. I cannot prove how 

 much the land yielded when let to tenants ; so that no 

 certainty could be attained on that point; but we were 

 both clearly of opinion that the produce was more 

 than four times as great now. Several things lead 

 me to think that it is much more than four times. 

 The net profit after paying Scotchman and all else 

 is near four times the Government (Griffith's) 

 valuation of the land. 



7. It is easy to judge what is the effect of good wages 

 on labourers, and on the many other persons of all 

 sorts who depend on the expenditure of money 

 wages, or on dealing that is paid for at last out of 

 wages. In my village of a dozen houses, a baker has 

 set up. I built him a large oven that is in work 

 every day, where since the time of Adam a loaf was 

 never baked before, and where until the last few 

 years scarcely any bread was used. He has opened 

 a general shop too, where almost everything may be 

 bought. What has happened on the small scale of 

 my village is going on everywhere else on a much 

 larger scale. The former tenants of my farm spent 

 nothing on bought manures, or on bought foods for 

 stock. Now, we spend over 1 per acre yearly all 

 round on such things, and could not make the farm 

 pay without them. 



Such gains as I have described are just what 



