On the Improvements in West Norfolk. 9 



not at all detrimental to hinij but thej are advantageous to a 

 bad one. 



When we look at the results to which I am calling the attention 

 of our Society, what an example do they hold out to all men of 

 landed property, but more especially to young men ! We see 

 what one man's exertions can do — we see by beginning in early 

 life to apply himself to agricultural pursuits what immense 

 improvement Lord Leicester has lived to see effected in his estate 

 — what benefit he has conferred upon his country, and what an 

 interesting pursuit he has secured to himself. This he has done 

 without debarring himself at all from the more exciting pursuits 

 of an English country gentleman : during a great part of this pe- 

 riod, while he was effecting this great good, he kept a pack of 

 fox-hounds; during the whole of it he has been distinguished for 

 his success as a sportsman in shooting. 



He was undoubtedly the original and greatest cause of these 

 beneficial results ; his energy, his perseverance, and his liberality 

 were the great moving powers by which the improvements were 

 pressed forward : but one of the means, and that one of the most 

 important, which enabled him to effect what he wished, was the 

 annual sheep-shearing. It is satisfactory to feel that our Society, 

 having the same object of improving the agriculture of the 

 country in view., has adopted the same means, by our annual 

 country meetings, of effecting it. Our power of collecting and 

 disseminating information must be vastly greater than that of any 

 individual ; and, seeing the successful results which I have de- 

 scribed, I hope and trust we may look forward to producing 

 effects in the highest degree beneficial to the, country. 



IL — On the Advantage of Testing the Draught of Ploughs. 

 By Henry J. Hannam. 



To Ph. Pusey, Esq., M.P. 



Dear Sir, — You and Mr. Handley have fully made known to 

 the Society the use and value of the dynamometer in the draught 

 of ploughs, and have furnished valuable data for the future 

 guidance of the agricultural community. What chiefly remains 

 to be done is to apply similar experiments to individual cases, 

 that each farmer may make himself acquainted with the degree of 

 power required to work his implements ; and whether others are 

 to be found that will work with less strength, and equally answer 

 his purpose. 



Your '' Inquiry on Draught in Ploughing," in vol. i. part iii.. 



