No. V.
Statement of the Annual Charge against, and Returns from, a 400 imperial acre Farm in Mid-Lothian—on an average of ten years previous to free trade in corn and cattle;—with a comparative statement of the Returns of Produce from the same farm under the present free-trade measures affecting agriculture. The farm alluded to is managed on the four-course shift—the whole straw, turnips, and clover being consumed on it, and an average number of stock fattened.
| Rent of farm, 400 acres at 45s. per acre, | £900 | 0 | 0 |
| Interest on sunk and floating capital, | 240 | 0 | 0 |
| Expenses of management, wages, tradesmen's accounts, extra manures, grass and clover seeds, and miscellaneous expenses, | 817 | 0 | 0 |
| Casualties in stock, and fire insurance, | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| Public and parish burdens, | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| Total yearly charge, | £2037 | 0 | 0 |
To meet this sum there is the produce of 230 acres corn crop, 10 acres potatoes, and the profits from live stock as follows:—
| 100 acres oats, at 48 bushels per imperial acre, | 4800 | |||||
| Less for seed, servants' meal, and horses, | 2004 | |||||
| Leaving for sale, | 2796 | at 3s. 3d., | £454 | 7 | 0 | |
| 70 acres wheat, at 32 bushels per acre, | 2240 | |||||
| Less for seed, | 220 | |||||
| Leaving for sale, | 2020 | at 7s., | 707 | 0 | 0 | |
| 30 acres barley, at 48 bushels per acre, | 1440 | |||||
| Less for seed, | 100 | |||||
| Leaving for sale, | 1340 | at 4s., | 268 | 0 | 0 | |
| 30 acres beans, at 40 bushels per acre, | 1200 | |||||
| Less for seed, | 110 | |||||
| Leaving for sale, | 1090 | at 4s. 6d., | 245 | 5 | 0 | |
| Produce of 10 acres potatoes, after deducting seed, | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Profits from live stock fed upon 60 acres turnips and 100 acres grass, | 550 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total return, | £2324 | 12 | 0 | |||
| 2324 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Profit, | £287 | 12 | 0 |
The like quantities of disposable grain, taken at the present prices,
fetch as follows:—
| 2796 bushels oats, @ 2s. 4d., | £326 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2020 bushels wheat, @ 4s. 9d., | 479 | 15 | 0 | |||
| 1340 bushels barley, @ 3s. 0d., | 201 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1090 bushels beans, @ 3s. 3d, | 177 | 12 | 6 | |||
| 10 acres potatoes, | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Add profits from live stock, | 550 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total returns | £1834 | 11 | 6 | |||
| Sum chargeable as above against the farm, | £2037 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 202 | 8 | 6 | ||||
| Leaving the farmer short, for rent, capital, and expenses of management, | 202 | 8 | 6 | |||
| Total loss annually incurred, | £490 | 0 | 6 |
THOs. SADLER,
Notron Mains, 14th December 1849.