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poses is that sum upon which the net profit of the 

 yearly crop will yield a fair interest. At seven per 

 cent, interest, whatever reduces the net profit seventy 

 cents per acre reduces the actual value of the land $10 

 per acre. Hence the loss of $37,679,000, in the yearly 

 income from certain lands, is equivalent to a loss of 

 $538,271,000 in their actual value. Such is the result 

 of a ' trifling ' change of five cents per cental in rates of 

 freight ! 



" It is true, the farmers of the eleven States are not 

 affected in the same degree by a general change in rates. 

 For the effect upon the value of land depends upon the 

 number of bushels produced to the acre. The average 

 yield of different crops to the acre in different States, 

 for the four years 18681871 inclusive, and the effect 

 of a change of one cent, per one hundred pounds upon the 

 average value of land employed in growing each crop 

 in each State, are stated in the following tables : 



AVERAGE YIELD OF DIFFERENT CROPS. 



" (Hay in tons and hundredths; other crops in 

 bushels and tenths.) 



