7? Review of Mhldlefex Survey. Jan. 



** Cultivators of farms, fix perfons to every lOO acres, 



is — — — — 2,340,000 



Ditto of gardens, hop grounds, nurferies, &c. 300,000 



Smiths, wheelwrights, bricklayers, mafons, carpenters, 

 painters, plumbers, glaziers, various manufacturers of 

 furniture, woollen cloth, and making It up, linen, 

 and making it up, leather, and making it into flioes, 

 boots, &c. hofe, harnefs and faddlery : as much of 

 each of thefe defcriptions of perfons as are wholly 

 employed by the cultivators of the foil, men, women, 

 and children, about feven perfons to each farm of 

 100 acres. Is — — — 2,800,000 



The like of millers, bakers, maltfters, brewers, dlftll- 

 lers, ftarchmakers, dealeis In corn, and perfons era- 

 ployed in the commerce of corn — 500,000 

 The landlords of farms — — 40,000 

 Perfons fupported by taxes on the produce of land 12o,oqo 



Total — 6,ioo,cco 



It will be evident, at one glance, that thefe calculations 

 are more fanciful than juft. Political arithmetic has late- 

 ly been much in vogue, and who would not follow the 

 fafliion ? 



The fefSlion upon Tillage^ page 138, confirms what we 

 have already mentioned relative to the imperfe£l cultivation 

 of this county. We fele£t the following paflage : 



** In general, the ploughing Is deep, and with a wide furrow, 

 which, of courfe, very much increafes the weight or draught, 

 and neceffarlly requires a ftrong team, which, moving with a very 

 flow pace, as all heavy teams do, performs but very little work in 

 a day. It is not one time In fifty that they go to plough with 

 fo few as three horfes ; but mollly, for the lighter work, ufing 

 four ; on rather Itronger land, five, and even fometlmes fix : In 

 €very In fiance drawing at length, or one before the other. In 

 May 1796, I faw. In one day, two teams, with fix horfes in each, 

 and three men to attend each team ; namely, one to hold the 

 plough, and two to drive the horfes, ploughing, with a wide fur- 

 row, about three quarters cf an acre per day. Indeed, thefe 

 long heavy teams of horfes do not, on an average, plough more 

 than four or five acres In fix days ; at an expence, to the owners 

 of fuch teams, of about twenty-feven {hillings an acre for one bad 

 ploughing. I have feen a barley foil receive the lall ploughing, 

 previous to fowing turnips, with a team of five horfes, and two 

 men to attend them ; and, at the fame tijoje, a team of fix horfes 

 in length, with three men attending, were giving the firft plough- 



ing to a fallow. " 



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