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Rh rents have risen 25 per cent, and between 1846 and 1860 40 per cent., though the price of grain has only risen 5 per cent. That leases are rarely granted for a term exceeding nine years, and frequently for only three or five years. That the average profits of the farmer are scarcely more than three per cent., instead of from 7 to 10 per