PROFIT. 31 



Rent . 



Labour in and out 



Five sacks of seed . . . 



12 12 6 



. s, d. 



Produce 50 sacks, at 6s. 6d. r . . 1650 

 Trash, or small pigs . . . 100 



17 5 



Jeaving a profit of 4Z. !&?. 6d. per acre. The 

 produce will vary greatly at times, and then the 

 price of the article varies too. The returns to the 

 labourer are always ample, when conducted with 

 any thing like discretion ; and the emolument to 

 the farmer is also quite sufficient, as, beside the 

 rent, he is paid for the manuring his land for a 

 succeeding crop, be it wheat or barley ; hence land 

 is always to be obtained by the cotter, upon appli- 

 cation. We have a marked instance in the year 

 1825 how little we can predict what the product of 

 this crop will be, or the change that alteration of 

 weather may effect ; for after the drought of the 

 summer, after our apprehensions, our dismay (for 

 the loss of this root is a very serious calamity), the 

 produce of potatoes was generally fair, in places 

 abundant ; many acres yielding full eighty sacks, 

 which, at the digging out price of 6s. the sack, 

 gave a clear profit to the labourer of ll/. 7s. 6d. 

 per acre ! But at any rate it gives infinite comfort 

 to the poor man, which no other article can equally 



