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crops: I commence with potatoes, and have taken wheat 

 for the second year, and for the third year I take oats. I 

 then divide the land into various qualities. I have taken 

 No. 1 as being the very richest of our land, then No. 2 as 

 being something inferior to that. I have given six exam- 

 ples; but the Commissioners will recollect that although I 

 have only given six, those six will not apply to every qua- 

 lity of land there will be intermediate qualities of land; 

 but, if I prove the principle to be good, it is very easy to 

 adapt it to any quality of land which may produce some- 

 thing more or something less. The whole principle is to 

 ascertain, what is an acre of land in the country capable of 

 producing for three years in succession, and then taking 

 the average price of such produce; and that is what I have 

 worked out on this plan. Then having got those three 

 years' crops, I add them together, and it makes a total of 

 26 in the three years. I divide it by three in order to 

 get the average amount, which will be 8 13s. 4d. I then 

 divide by four in order to get the fourth part, and the 

 fourth part will be 2 3s. 4<:/., and that, I say, ought to be 

 the rent for the first class land, leaving three-fourths to 

 the tenant. I then work this in a similar way upon the 

 next quality of land, and bring out as the rent l 18s. 6d. 

 For the third quality, l 9s. ; the fourth quality, l 2s.5d. ; 

 the fifth quality, 13$. 7d.\ the sixth quality, Is. lOd. 

 per acre. I have stated before that there may be inter- 

 mediate land; but, if the principle is a right one, it is a 

 principle by which you may ascertain the value of any 

 land, and what ought to be paid as a fair rent for it. 



No. 1. 



s. d. 



First year, Potatoes, 60 barrels, (8t. 8c. 3q.) at 4s., .12 o 

 Second do., Wheat, 8 do., (37 bushels 20lbs.) 25s., 10 

 Third do., Oats, 10 do., (51 bushels 22lbs.) 8s., 400 



Rent per acre, . 



