13 



The foregoing details suggest the following remarks : 



1. They fail to prove the principle for which the noble 

 earl was contending. They exhibit an account only as 

 regards the landlord, but none as to the tenant- To have 

 demonstrated the principle, they should have shown the 

 debits against the crop incurred by labour, seed, taxes, &c., 

 and, that the surplus was sufficient to give the farmer a fair 

 profit, and the landlord one-fourth of the produce as rent. 



2. Compare the estimate No. 1, for prime land, with 

 No. 4. The crops grown are the same in both ; but in 

 No. 4, the expenses for seed and labour are greater than 

 in No. 1, because it is well known that good land is easier 

 laboured, and requires less seed than bad. Yet in No. 1 

 the gross produce is 26, from which deduct one-fourth 

 for rent, 6 10s., and the balance left to the tenant 

 for seed, labour, and profit, is 19 105. On No. 4, where 

 the expenses are greater, the gross produce is only 13 

 9s. 6d. so that the tenant on this land has lost 6 Qs. 6d. 

 of the fair return which he should have had on No. 1, 

 to his own share ; and yet with the result apparent on his 

 own calculations, the noble earl considers that he should 

 suffer a further loss, to the extent of one-fourth of that 

 wretched produce, as a payment to his landlord. 



3. The calculations are founded upon an assumed rota- 

 tion not usual on his lordship's estate nor in Ireland 

 nor possible under ordinary circumstances. The farmer 

 who would manure the third part of his farm every 

 year, should have ample resources provided for house- 

 feeding a stock of cattle capable of producing that manure; 

 but the triennial rotation supposed above provides no 

 green food, nor food of any kind whatever for nine months 

 of the year, and for the other three months there is only 

 a little dry straw, which would make but little manure, 

 and that little bad. 



4. The calculations given as to the prime land, No. 1, 

 allow the tenant 6 10s. per acre to himself, to cover all 

 expenses and profit whereas, on No. 6, an inferior soil, 

 the whole produce of three acres amounts to only 4 14s., 



