AGRICULTURAL VALUE OF. 789 



perty is much subdivided and garden-husbandry or the culti- 

 vation of potatoes extensively followed ; or where, in fairly 

 productive localities, the land is being over-cropped. 



In all other cases, and especially where bad farming prevails, 

 and the farmer from obstinacy and indolence declines to adopt 

 improved agricultural methods, there can be no real necessity 

 for concessions of forest-litter. 



