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certain simple conditions ; ihey are read with great willingness, 

 not to say avidity, and the success of these first steps affords 

 encouragement to further progress in this most desirable direction. 

 The farm-labourers of this county are as well off, and perhaps 

 better than in any other part of the kingdom, except where 

 manufactures are found, as in Yorkshire, &c., and their cottages 

 for the most part comfortable and substantial. Fuel is cheap 

 everywhere, whether it be coals or turf, and an able-bodied man 

 can earn 125. or 135. per week in any district. Mr. Patterson, of 

 Holbeck, g:ives his men 75. a vi^eek and their meat in the house, 

 and Mr. Wilson, of Newton Park, has some in the house alto- 

 gether ; but this is not a good system, nor does it generally pre- 

 vail. As a class, I should say they were better housed, better 

 fed, better warmed, and better paid than in many parts of Eng- 

 land where agricultural occupations are their only employment. 



The section of a " Corn-Mow. 



February 28, 1849. 



To Mr. Garnett. 



My dear Sir, — I regret that I was from home when you called here on 

 the subject of your Report of the Farming of Lancashire ; but I now send 

 you the particulars of the process of working the field you saw in turnips 

 last week — a process which several years' experience induces me to re- 

 commend as the best and quickest mode of bringing heavy, worn-out land 

 into good play. 



The field consisted of many small fields which I laid together, as my 

 landlord desired. 



Having all been for several years overcropped, under-manured, and short 



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