( 574 ) 
This Calculation is made upon the Suppofition, that 
an Acre of Ground yields twenty fix Pounds of neat 
Saffron in three Years, which I dated only as a mean 
Quantity between the greatedand the lead j and there- 
fore the Price of Saffron muft be adjuded accordingly, 
which I think cannot be done better than by fixing it 
at thirty Shillings per Pound ^ fince in very plentiful 
Years it is fold for twenty, and is fometimes worth be- 
tween three and four Pounds. At this Rate, twenty-fix 
Pounds of Saffron are worth thirty-nine Pounds, and 
the neat Profits of an Acre of Ground producing Saffron, 
will in three Years amount to fifteen Pounds thirteen 
Sliillings,or to about five Pounds four Shillings yearly. 
This, I fay, may be reckoned the neat Profit of an Acre 
of Saffron, fuppofing that all the Labour were to be 
hired for ready Money - but as the Planter and his Fa- 
mily do a confiderable Part of the Work themfelves, 
fome of this Expence is faved : That is, by planting Saf- 
fron, he not only may reafonably exped to clear about 
five Pounds yearly per Acre, but alfo to maintain him- 
felf and Family for fome Part of each Year • and it is 
upon this Suppofition only, that the Refult of other 
Computations which have .been made of the Profits of 
Saffron, can be fa id to have any tolerable Degree of 
Exadfiefsj but the Calculations themfelves are un- 
doubtedly very unaccurate. 
I have faid nothing here concerning the Charge in 
buying, or Profits in felling the Saffron Heads, becaufe 
in any large Trad of Ground thefe muff at length al- 
ways ballance one another, while the Quantity of 
Ground planted yearly continues the fame, which has 
been pretty much the Cafe for feveral Years pad. 
finis. 
