1st. _year_. Green Oats, _l_. 0 16 8
Potatoes, 10 5 1
2d. do. Wheat, 3 7 8
Spurry, 2 0 1
3d. do. Rye, 2 0 0
Turnips, 2 1 6
Wheat Straw, 1 0 10
Rye do. 1 3 2
Halm, or straw of
potatoes, 0 6 2
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Total produce in 3 years, _l._23 7 2
Giving one year with another, _l._7 9 1 per acre.
From these statements, proceeding upon the most correct data,
it is seen that the value of the produce of one acre of ground,
cultivated according to the Flemish system for _three_ years, is,
(within a fraction,) 50 per cent. more than what is produced in
_four_ years from an equal space of ground, managed agreeably to
the most approved principles of English husbandry. The advantages
of the Flemish farmer, will appear still more striking, when the
nett profit which he clears, after paying the necessary expenses of
cultivation is contrasted with that of the English farmer. According
to Arthur Young, the English farmer receives about four and a half
twentieths of the produce, calculating the gross produce of the soil
at twenty. This upon _l._4 18 6-1/4, (the result per acre, for one
year, as in Table I.) would give _l._1 2 1-1/4.
The produce, per acre, for one year, in Flanders (see Table II.) is
_l._7 9 1; the expense of cultivation, land tax, and rent, according
to Vanderstraten, is _l._4 0 1; leaving to the farmer _l._3 9 0; or
nearly _four_ times the amount obtained by the English farmer.
The subject of _Flemish Husbandry_ is by no means exhausted. I shall
resume it in future communications.
Your's, respectfully,