Profits from live stock, fed upon 200 acres grass, and 100 acres green crop, 800 0 0 --------- Total returns, £1956 0 0 1956 0 0 --------- Leaving annually to the farmer, for his skill and industry, over interest of capital employed, a sum of £106 0 0 Convert the above disposable produce into money, at the present prices, or rather at what may be fairly calculated upon for future seasons, under a system of free trade, and the following is the result:-- 2400 bushels of oats, at 2s. per bushel, £240 0 0 1120 bushels of wheat, at 5s. per ditto, 280 0 0 2020 bushels of barley, at 2s. 9d. per ditto, 277 15 0 --------- £797 15 0 Live stock, (as above, £800,) less 20 per cent on former prices, leaves 640 0 0 --------- Net return, £1437 15 0 Sum chargeable as above against the farm, 1850 0 0 -------- Leaving the farmer _minus_, for rent, capital, and expenses of management, £412 5 0 412 5 0 -------- Total loss annually incurred by difference in price occasioned by free trade, £518 5 0 -------- HUGH WATSON, KEILLOR, _1st December 1849_. No. II. STATEMENT of the average PRODUCE of a farm in a full state of productiveness, managed agreeably to the five-shift course, as usually adopted in the south-eastern Borders of Scotland, where the returns of stock form a very considerable means of remuneration, and the price of which, of course, is a material element in the calculation as to the rent to be given. Thus, then, assuming the rent of 500 acres of useful land for this purpose--upon the estimate of the price of grain and stock, as warranted by their value previous to the introduction of the new corn law and tariff--to be, £800 0 0