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harvests, will (whenever they happen) reduce us to a state of most serious necessity 

 in the most essential articles of our maintenance. 



EAST LOTHIAN.- 



Expense of a plough for one 

 ploughgale of land, 30 acres 

 and 10 acres in grass: 



1790. 



Rent, at 30s. 



Interest on capital stock, iay ;{[• 50. 



per plough 

 Allowance for tear and wear on 



horses, 12^ per cent, on £^0, 

 Smith, Wright, and saddler 

 Ploughman 

 Labourers, per plough 

 Harvest work and board, per plougli 

 Road work 



Horse tax - . - 



Property tax 



Window lights, per plough 

 Incidental work, per ditto 



year, supposing 50 acres to be the extent of one 

 of which are in grain, 10 acres in fallow and turnips, 



1804. 



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From the above it appears, that the rent and expense of cultivating each plough- 

 gale of arable land in 1804, exceeds those of 1790 in no less a sum than £109. 15^. 

 without taking into account the increased expense of lime, dung, repairs of houses 

 and fences, the private expenses of the farmer, and the maintenance of his family ; 

 and as nearly the v;hole oudays, rent excepted, falls on the produce of the 30 acres 

 in grain, it also appears, after deducting £30. additional rent upon the acres not in 

 crop, that the extra charge upon each acre carrying corn, amounts to £2. 13s. or 

 thereabout. If we shall suppose that the disposeable produce amounts, on an 

 average, to five bolls and one half from each acre, after seed and horse corn are 

 deducted, then every boll of disposeable grain costs the tenant 10s. id. more than 

 it did in 1790. 



