40 THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



The price of wheat in Switzerland is at leaft 17s. 6do 

 the maker 5 Co that the whole produdl amounts 

 to* ^.48 4 4 



Fifteen acres Town with rye, at five muids 

 an acre, yielded 75 muids, which at 

 8s. pd. the muid, is 32 16 3 



Total reimburfement 



The tytheofthe fields of wheat, amount's £. s, a, 



to 4 18 6 



The tythe of feveDty-fivc muids of rye is 3 5 7 

 Kine maJters, fix bufhels of wheat for leed, 



(allowing ten bufliels per acre) 8 3 9r 

 Thirteen muids of rye for feed for 15 acres, 

 (allowing three budiels and an half per 



acre) 5^3 9 



Interefl of 5-47!. 6s. at 4 percent. 21 17 6 



Rent of a meadow 4 16 3 

 Seven tumbrils of ftable manure, and fix 



tGtis of turf afties s 5 g 



Total expence 50 19 i 



Clear profit 30 i & 



8i o 7 

 If I have omitted the wheelwright, the collar-maker, 

 the farrier, in the articles of expence ; I have likewife 

 omitted the profits arifmg from the wafte ground con- 

 certed into good ploughed land in the article of reim- 

 burfement ; which, as I have already obferved, produ- 

 ces grain, potatoes, hemp, and a variety of vegetables 



for 



* As I am unacouaintecl with thcfe meafures, we mufl confult the pfo- 

 po/tions.— Thefe 15 acres are aliout lof Englifu, which producing 48I. 

 4% 4^. is at the rate of 4I. lis. 8d. per acre : a conQderable produce for 

 fo frtMll a fi^rm lo yield ; — but we muft attribute it to the induftry of it? 

 excellent culiivator and his ample ryi^rvjri: g^ —Th? rvi? is l\, y. 6:1. ps! 

 "iCfe, whi':h ia a g?od crop, Y< 



