PROFITS. 45 



crop." Our manufacturers occasionally import 

 teazles from Holland and France, when the price is 

 high in England : this they can do when the home 

 price exceeds 8/. 



In letting teazle land, various agreements are 

 made, not necessary to mention in a note like this ; 

 but it is usually taken for two years, it requiring 

 much of this time from sowing the seed to cutting 

 the heads for sale. In rating the expenses, we will 



say 



. s. a. 



One acre, at 2/. per ann. (for two years) . 400 



Expense of culture, 31. per ann. per acre . 600 



Tithe 080- 



Cutting the heads, per acre . . 060 



Sorting and packing at 6s. for seven packs, average 



crop . ..220 



Miscellaneous expenses, polls, sticks, c. . 1 O 5 



13 1G 

 Average crop brought to market, seven packs, at 6/. 42 



Leaving a profit for the 2 years, upon an acre, of .28 4 o 



As the teazle man seldom rents less than four or six 

 acres, which he can very well attend to, it may pro- 

 duce at the two years 1 end a return upon the six 

 acres of 169., if all circumstances should be fa- 

 vourable a tempting inducement to speculation, 

 when a labourer, by regular daily pay, cannot earn 

 above 32L per annum. But it requires some ready 

 money to support the family during this period of ex- 

 pectation and if a bad season occur, all the labour 

 is lost, the profit destroyed, the anxiety of months 



