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I fear, to weigh much with the majority of farmers. 

 Let me then endeavour to bring the question home 

 to them by a statement of a different kind. I sup- 

 pose it will hardly be disputed that, by means of the 

 system of high cultivation which I have described, 

 a farmer may be expected to get per acre at least 

 one sack of wheat, one of barley, a quarter of a ton 

 of clover hay, and three tons of turnips additional 

 Let us compute the value of these items : 



4 bushels of wheat at 56s. ../.ISO $6 72 



4 bushels of barley at 30* v ..0150 3 60 



1-4 ton of hay at 3J 0150 360 



3 tons of turnips at 5s. ... 15 3 60 



4)/.3 13 4)$17 52 



Average per acre 18 3 4 38 



This on 120 acres amounts to M09 10 $52560 



The labour of the extra 



hands through the piece 



at 11 shillings per week, 



amounts to 1.57 04 $274 56 



I charge nothing for horse 



labour, since the cart- 

 ing of dung, litter, &c., 



is performed at times 



when the team would 



otherwise be standing 



still. But as there is 



some additional weai 



and tear of carts and 



wagons, let us estimate 



this at 10000 4800 



67 04 322 56 



Extra profit arising to the occupier /.42 06 $203 04 



The result of this computation, if correct, ought 

 surely to encourage every farmer to be liberal in his 

 expenditure in the article of labour ; and if not cor- 

 rect, I hope some one will point out where I am 

 wrong. The actual produce of the present year, in 

 my own case, is as follows : my wheat, so far as 

 yet threshed, averages from nine to twelve sacks per 



