The Efincation’ of Landed 
Proprietors and > ‘Tenant 
Farmersin Rural Affairs. 
Tlie Soil: Its Nature, and the 
Treatment it should receive. 
Land Agents, 
Sizes of Farms; and the Capa- | 2 
bilities, Selection, and Treats | 
ment of Tenants, 
Small Holdings, 
Farm Leases. 
Proprietors, resident and nou- 
resident. A 
Landed Property, | 20. 
. Let Farms. 
nmtewr 
= 
The Game Laws. 
Building Pixtures. 
Payment of Rent in Kina. 
Valuntion of Landed Property. 
Inspection of and Reporting 
on Landed Estates. 
The Sub-Division of Parms, 
Live Hedges, 
Growing Woods; 
\Clay-Land Farming; 
of 150 Acres; 
Rk. Morton is known ‘as./a* writer: on 
ictical agriculture ; but the present trea- 
ds the one which will permanently establish’ his 
atation. It isa solidly-built and capacious essay 
the administration of Yanded property, and there 
carcely arelevant here dt howeyer compxelien- 
2, however trivial, that is not proportionately. dis- 
sed. Mr. Morton traverses his subject in all irec- 
1s, first generalising, then specifying, and treatine 
y point as part.of a broad, substantial mass of 
ter to be arfalysed, arranged, and laid out for 
iliar investigation. Three heads, he remarks, in- 
ources of territorial estates—land; wood, 
Ss. ‘The last he excludes, as not falling 
erly within the scope of the work; withthe other 
he mainiy deals as representing interests, of 
ch the latent capabilities may be developed by the 
ption of systems of mansgement based npon the 
iciple of liberal economy. ~ ‘Lwo classes have to 
sideradthe landlord and the tenant-farmer : 
n, as Mi. Morton argues, theré must 
or there will bea waste of nature 
ergy. Addressing these orders of the 
he practical man aiming At the guid- 
does not offer an elementary manual 
is copious Wisquisition being entirely 
restions to the experienced improver, 
characteristic of the work, which 
. Drainage of Land. ae Od 
25. Forage and Root Crops. 
26. Compost Manures. 
. Roads, aud Water Supply. 
Description of the Praves, and 
INDEX. 
The Law of Entaily = a Sra 
The 25 Lithographic Illustra- 
tions comprise Plans and 
Isometrical Views of— 
1. Covered Farmstead for Farms 12, Plan of a Farmstead -for a 
2. Open-Yarded Homestead for | 
Farm of 200 Acres, with 50 Aeres 
of Dairy Pasture ; 
ART MORTON'S WORK ON THE MANAGEMENT 
IMPROVEMENT OF LANDED PROPERTY. 
' 
ished, in One Volume, royal S8vo. illustrated with 25 lithographic 
Engravings, price 31s. 6d. cloth, 
RESOURCES. OF ESTATES: 
UATISE: ON THE AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT AND 
GENERALeMANAGEMENT OF LANDED. PROPERTY, 
By. JOHN “LOCKHART MORTON, 
dil and Agricultural Engineer ;~“Author of Thirteen-Highland and Agricultural 
; Socicty Prize Essays. 
LEP LPL IL LLP LILLIE LL LLP ILLS rare 
CONTENTS, 
How to make the most of | 19. Calcareous Applications. 
Farm Buildings. 
21. The Preservation of Timber. 
22.. Home Farms, 
3. Farmstead for a 300-Acre 
Skeeter OpDInE and Feeding Farm, 
very highly farmed; 
4, Open-courted Parmstead for a 
| Farm 6€756 Imperial Acres; 
Farmstead for a Farm of 400 
Acres, thé root crop being partially 
folded-off with sheen ; 
6, For a 150-Acre Home Farm; 
7, Covered Farmstead fora Farm 
of 250 Acres, very highly cultivated; 
8, Covered Homestead fora Farm 
of 260-Acres, intended partly for 
Dairying and ‘partly for Feeding 
purposes ; 
9, Covered Homestead fora Farm 
of 300 Acyes ; 
10. Impreved Model Farmstead- 
ing for a Farm of 600 Acres ; 
11."Cirenlar covered. Homestall 
for & 2h(-Acre Farm ; 
Farm of 200 Acres; and 
13. Laying-out of Mixed Planta- 
fions, with the Trees distributed 
both in Hexagons and in Squares. 
From the ArHENXUM, August 14, 1858. 
consists of twenty-seven elaborate ehap- 
ters. The earliest treat of the value of 
lard, ia Great“Britain; the education of territorial 
proprietors and ténant-farmers in rural affairs, thre 
nature and susceptibilities of the soil, Jand agents, 
the sizes of farms, the graduations cf eapital, small 
holdings, leases, resident »nd non-resident proprie- 
tors. There are searching and vigorous essays on the 
Entail and the Game Laws, the law of fixtures and 
payment in kind. Mr. Morton has evidently studied 
to its minutiz the actual system of'valuation as ap- 
plied toland, anddie enters ‘intosfull explanations 
respecting live hedges, graving woods, elay-land 
farming, calearedus uppliancés by way of manure; 
the preservation of timber, drainage, forage ana root 
crops, compost. manures, roads, and water supply. 
We-have thus indicated only the priacipal divisions 
of this well-written freatise. But in addition te the 
text, the instructions of which are rendered the more 
available by an excellent Judex, there is au apparatus 
of lithograph engravings, every’ plan being accom- 
panied by an isometrical view, and the whole forming 
a most valuable series for the study of agricuiturists 
ofall classes. Withoutjudging of Mr. Morton prac- 
tically as a lectiirer to landlords or farnicrs, we my 
fairly assign this volume its merit as one that’ dis= 
cusses a large and diffieult subject. systeniatically, 
easily, and in the minutes? de ail, 
: LONGMAN, BROWN, and CO., Paternoster Row.’ 
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