COST AND PRICE OF RICE [XVII].  The annual figures (from Aichi) for the years 1894 to 1915 (page 384) show the cost of producing a tan of rice, that is the summer crop.  The amounts per tan are calculated on the basis of the expenses of a tenant who is cropping 8 tan.  The totals for the winter crop are also given.  The figures which appear on the opposite page were described to me by the farmer concerned as “compiled on the basis of investigations by the chairman of the village agricultural association and by its managers and still further proved and quite trustworthy.”  It will be seen that the value of the winter crop is low; a secondary employment is usually a better thing for the farmer.  In one or two places there is a sen or so difference in the additions which may have been made by the transcriber from the Japanese original.  The difference in amounts of rent is due to difference in fields rented and also to reduction allowed owing to bad crops.  The difference in the income from crops is usually due to destruction by hail or wind.

COST AND PRICE OF RICE (see page 383)

|Year
|      |Yield in
|      |_koku_
|      |      |Reserved for Rent
|      |      |and Seeds (koku)
|      |      |      |Market Price per
|      |      |      |_koku_ (yen)
|      |      |      |       |Gross Income including
|      |      |      |       |Straw and Chaff,
|      |      |      |       |not usually sold (yen)
|      |      |      |       |       |Manures (yen)
|      |      |      |       |       |     |Taxes and Amortisation
|      |      |      |       |       |     |of Implements (sen)
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |Total Outlay (yen)
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |Net Income from Summer
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |Crop of Rice (yen)
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |Days of Labour on
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |Summer Crop of Rice
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |      |Net Income from
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |      |Winter Crop (?Barley)
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |      |       |Total Net
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |      |       |Income from
|      |      |      |       |       |     |    |      |       |      |       |both Crops.
|------|------|------|-------|-------|-----|----|------|----

---|------|-------|-------|
| 1894 | 2.23 | 1.05 |  7.66 |  9.81 | 2   | 21 | 2.21 |  7.60 |  2.5 |  2.51 | 10.11 |
| 1895 | 2.13 | 1.05 |  8.09 |  8.71 | 2   | 21 | 2.26 |  6.45 | 21.5 |  2.48 |  8.92 |
| 1896 | 1.53 |  .80 |  8.67 |  6.89 | 2.4 | 22 | 2.58 |  4.31 | 21.5 |  3.38 |  7.69 |
| 1897 | 1.88 | 1.05 | 11.53 | 10.63 | 2.9 | 23 | 3.13 |  7.50 | 21.5 |  5.22 | 12.72 |
| 1898 | 2.39 | 1.05 | 14.62 | 21.13 | 3.2 | 25 | 3.40 | 17.73 | 21.5 |  5.50 | 23.23 |