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tion of any given price of wheat, the price of 

 80s. for example, or any other price, let it now 

 be adapted to the price of 54s. or to the actual 

 price of the day. If the subsisting terms bear 

 no distinct relation in their original adoption to 

 any specific price of wheat, the course of hus- 

 bandry and the ordinary produce of lands of 

 the same quality, will show the probable ag- 

 gregate produce of the arable part of any 

 particular farm in any one year, and in the 

 average of years. Of this aggregate produce, 

 the landlord's part may be taken to be, accord- 

 ing to variable circumstances, from a fourth 

 to a third; but the exact portion having been 

 once agreed upon between the parties, its value, 

 or the rent to be paid, may be determined by 

 the actual price of wheat on each succeeding 

 quarter-day *. 



splendid examples have been stated also; and hundreds of 

 landlords in the different parts of the kingdom, yielding to 

 the force of necessity, or anticipating its arrival, or prompt- 

 ed by their own humane and liberal consideration of the situ- 

 ation of their tenantry, have no doubt already pursued a 

 similar course. 



* Suppose a farm to consist of 100 acres of land, of which 

 80 are arable and 20 pasture. 



Of the arable, 40 may be in each year cropped with wheat 

 and barley ; 20 acres being cropped with each. Twenty 

 acres of wheat, at 3 quarters per acre, will produce 60 quar- 

 ters of wheat ; 20 acres of barley, at 4 quarters per acre, 

 will produce 90 quarters of barley. If the landlord and te- 



