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SEVEN POUNDS AN ACRE.
The Oxford economists, whose good work is unceasing, have just published an analysis of profit and loss on the crop in many districts. In every case a good profit is shown on the indivi- dual crop ; and the preface speaks of an average " real profit of VT 18s. 4d. per acre," which is so big as to be scarcely credible. The figures are the more cheering from our know- ledge that the beet has done lasting benefit to the land, broken the hard pan below the top spit, and aerated to a great depth. Profits last year appear to be higher than they were when the subsidy was higher. You may see the beneficent influence of the crop in many of the cornfields of this harvest. The very best are those that succeed the beet, and they have been unmanured. What the beet left was enough and to spare.
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