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can it be attributed to the lownefs of rent 

 being a confideration either of the landlord 

 or the tenant, on account of manuring ; 

 any extraordinary expence of which fort is, 

 in fact, rent, though not paid to the land- 

 lord ; and this alfo appears from the fmall- 

 nefs of the product in quantity ; that would 

 contradict, and be out of proportion to the 

 rent if the lands were richly manured. 



It will certainly be faid, that if the low- 

 nefs of the rent arofe from favour, the pro- 

 duels would be greater : It is very difficult 

 to anfwer this ; nor is this the proper place 

 for it -, but I mall hereafter attempt to mew, 

 that low rents, in many, very many cafes, 

 are prejudicial to the culture of the earth; 

 conlequently it is no contradiction to fup- 

 pofe the low rents in queftion to be thofe 

 of favour, or at leaft under their value, 

 which circumftance does not caufe a difpro- 

 portioned rife in quantity of product, as we 

 fee in the table, but only lowers the price 

 of it to the farmer. 



But there are difproportions in this table 

 that require fpeaking to; 3^. gd. rent give 

 crops of twenty bufhels ; Hs. 6d. is more 

 than double this, and yet the crop is only 

 twenty-eight hufhels, which is little more 

 than the rife of a third, inflead of more 

 than half. Again, from $s. to iol rent, 

 from 10 s. to 15 s. and from 15 s. to 20 s. 

 vary only one bufhel in their average pro- 

 duel: : 



