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PROFIT. 
But we find here, as is usual with other vegetable va- 
rieties, that after a few years’ cultivation the sorts lose 
their original characters, or, as the men say, “ the land 
gets sick of them,” and they cease to produce as at 
first, and new sets are resorted to. We have no vege- 
table under cultivation more probably remunerative 
than this, or more certain of being in demand sooner 
or later ; it consequently becomes an article of specu- 
lation, but not to such an injurious extent as some others 
are : it gives a sufficient profit to the farmer and his 
sub-renter. Our land is variously rented for this cul- 
ture ; but perhaps eight pounds per acre are a general 
standard : the farmer gives it two plowings, finds manure, 
and pays the tithe ; the seed is found, and all the labor 
in and out is performed by the renter ; or the farmer, 
in lieu of any rent, receives half the crop. The far- 
mer’s expenses may be rated at — 
£. s. d. 
Rent to his landlord 110 0 
Two plowings 160 
Twelve loads of manure . . . . . . 1 16 0 
Tithe 0 10 0 
Rates 030 
£5 5 0 
leaving him a clear profit of 2Z. 155. per acre. The sub 
renter’s expenditure and profit will be — 
£. s . d. 
Rent ............800 
Labor in and out 300 
Five sacks of seed 1126 
£12 12 6 
£. s. d. 
Produce 50 sacks, at 6s. Od 16 5 0 
Trash, or small pigs 10 0 
£17 5 0 
leaving a profit of 4Z. 125. 6cZ. per acre. The produce 
will vary greatly at times, and then the price of the ar- 
ticle varies too. The returns to the laborer are always 
ample, when conducted with any thing like discretion; 
and the emolument to the farmer is also quite sufficient, 
