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profit of the stock kept upon it, ought to amount to seven 

 rents, as thus : one for the landlord ; four and a quarter, 

 expenses ; and one and three quarters for the tenant's 

 maintenance. On a poor sand farm, where the expenses 

 are less, six and a quarter will do. On fair clay land, four 

 and a quarter: one, landlord ; two and a quarter, expenses; 

 one, tenant. On good turnip land, three and a half; one, 

 landlord ; one and three quarters, expenses ; three quarters, 

 tenant. Superior grazing land, two and a quarter : one, 

 landlord ; half, expenses ; three quarters, tenant. 'J here 

 is a difference of opinion as to the size that farms ought to 

 be : most, who consider the question as it regards the 

 public interest, are against large farms ; believing that 

 there is not a proportionably equal number of labourers 

 kept on large farms as there is on moderate-sized ones ; 

 besides which, it is argued that two farmers' families might 

 be maintained where there is only one. Perhaps there are 

 not, on the generality of farms of five hundred acres, 

 double the number of labourers employed as there are on 

 farms of two hundred and fifty acres. It is certainly in the 

 power of a good farmer to well manage, at less expense per 

 acre, two hundred and fifty acres of good arable land, than 

 he could one hundred and fifty acres, of the same quality. 

 As the question regards landlords and tenants, the size of 

 farms must depend on the nature of the soils, the parts of 

 the country in which the farms are situated, and the compe- 

 tency of the tenants ; for landlords cannot be expected to 

 let large farms to tenants with small capital. When wheat, 

 the chief dependence of clay land farmers to pay their rents, 

 was selling at eight-and-thirty shillings per quarter, as it 

 had been for a considerable lime previous to about the 

 middle of February, 1836, such farmers were then in a 

 truly distressed state : but not so the turnip-land farmers , 

 for barley, oats, mutton, and wool, were then selling at fair 

 prices. 



There should always, at harvest, be a good stock of 

 wheat in the farmers' hands. In former times, there always 

 was : but of late, those farmers who could keep part of 

 their produce have not, for from the violent speeches 

 against the corn laws, so continually made in Parliament 

 by the Honorable Member for Middlesex, they do not feel 



