H8 corn. — Rent*. 



By this method the landlord may perhaps obtain a 

 little more than one-third of ihe gross produce Value. 



At other times the landlord gives an advance of 

 four or five guntangs for seed to the cultivator on 

 whom devolves all the charges of culti vat ion ; when 

 the crop becomes ripe it is equally divided while 

 standing on the field, and each party cuts and Ties 

 away his own half 



The risks of cultivation are the chief causes of such 

 di/!< n iices in the money-rents and rents in kind. It 

 is probahle thai these risks being diminished by im- 

 proved management, the landlord will be able to get 

 more, and thai his share will hear an iiu-reasing pro- 

 portion tn the vi hole produce. 



It is possible that land which yields only 100 gun- 

 tangs will he cultivated. But this doc* not prove 

 that the necessary price ought not to he higher than 

 the amount of labor bestowed to obtain this quantity, 

 any more than that the price of potatoes over Great 

 Britain should be regulated by the rate at which an 

 Irish peasant can afford to cultivate ihem. 



The cost of raising two hundred guntangs of pad- 

 die on one orlong of poor land, together with that of 

 transporting it to market, will he found pretty nearly 

 to coincide with its average bazar price ; although 

 the lalter is not the effect of the former, but acciden- 

 tal, and is constantly liable to variation. 



It has been before observed that the present ave- 

 rage interest on capital sunk on good riceJand is 

 about per cent, received as rent, in nvmev. Hut 

 ii i> clear, from the rates above given of rents in kind, 

 that many a cultivating landlord may now actually 

 receive on the best lands in favoralm m m WW as much 

 us 80 per cent, clear profit ; while on the iftin/ rate 

 land he may realize 30 per cent. ; and that his rrttt 

 iu kind, should he not cultivate, will, in the first 



