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._ No. VI. VALUATION of PRODUCE, and EXPENSE of MANAGEMENT of a Farm of 320 Scots acres, situated within five miles of Edinburgh, on an average of seven years previous to potato failure in 1846, and farmed according to the four-shift rotation, the straw being sold in Edinburgh, and dung bought. The produce is a fair average of the best-managed farms within five miles of Edinburgh, during the period from which the average is taken. The prices noted are what were realised, being about 3s. 6d. per qr. above the average prices of the county, and the expense of management charged is what was actually paid. Acres. £ _s._ _d._ 50 Potatoes, at £17 per acre, 850 0 0 30 Turnip, at £16 per do., 480 0 0 50 Wheat, 5 qrs. per acre, at 58s. per qr., 725 0 0 30 Barley, 7 do. do., at 34s. do., 357 0 0 50 Pasture, let at £4 per Scots acre, 200 0 0 30 Hay, at £7 per do., 210 0 0 80 Oats, 7-1/2 qrs. per acre, at 26s. per qr., 780 0 0 ___ 320 Produce of straw sold, 450 0 0 Manure made on the farm from horses, &c., 80 0 0 _________ Value of produce, 4132 0 0 Expense of management, 4025 17 6 __________ Profit, £106 2 6 _________ [We ought, perhaps, to explain that this case is peculiar. It is that of a first-class farm in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, attested by men of the same standing as its tenant, and similarly situated; the average of the produce is very high, and the rent corresponding. Mr Gibson, the tenant farmer, has taken the details of the following statement from his books; so that it becomes of much value, as showing the statistics of farming in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis of Scotland. In estimating the productiveness of this farm by the extent of the yield, our English readers must bear in mind, that it is divided by the Scots and not the imperial acre as in the other estimates, the former being one-fifth larger. It will be allowed, on all hands, that the yield of this farm is extraordinary.] Acres. £ _s._ _d._