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&quot; The farmers around, seeing the great produce from stall- 

 feeding and liquid manure, are interested in taking additional 

 hands into their service. 



&quot; The more food that is raised from the soil, the more there 

 will be to exchange for clothing, and thus an increased home 

 market be provided for our manufacturers ; who, the more they 

 earn, the more they have to lay out in meat, &amp;lt;fcc. 



&quot;And to effect this, there is no deficiency in. capital. There 

 is no want of hands, as our Union Houses are overflowing with 

 the able-bodied ; nor is there any want of land, as the heaths, 

 commons, and grazing land, even round London, show.&quot; 



It is stated, likewise, and it is a fact deserving of all remark. 

 &quot; that, during a course of twelve years, out of four hundred 

 rents, only three rents have been deficient, though the tenants 

 were taken without reference to character, and told the rent 

 would not be demanded if not tendered ; but the desire of keep 

 ing the land has secured the annual payment, and only one, during 

 the whole of that time, has been convicted of a misdemeanor.&quot; 



&quot;In fifty parishes in one county in which there are above 



three thousand allotments, after the most careful inquiry, our 

 agent heard only of one commitment to prison in 1840, and not 

 even one in 1841, out of the whole three thousand families.&quot; 



The general condition on which allotments are granted being 

 that they shall be cultivated by the spade, the extraordinary 

 product obtained in this way deserves to be remarked. The 

 statements to which I shall refer are drawn from the reports of 

 a committee of Parliament, and seem, therefore, entitled to con 

 fidence. I have myself visited several allotment grounds in 

 different parts of the country, and am quite satisfied that the 

 results under this system of management are not overstated. On 

 this subject I shall say more hereafter ; but it may not be out of 

 place if I give here some examples which have been referred to. 



Jesse Piper, in Sussex, holds an allotment of four acres. He 

 obtained, in 1842. forty-two bushels of wheat from three quarters 

 of an acre of land ; he had two hundred and fifty bushels of 

 potatoes from three fourths of an acre ; he had ten bushels of 

 barley from the other land, and kept two cows, and three and 

 sometimes four pigs ; he considers that there might be an acre 

 of grass, and the cows were kept entirely upon the produce of 

 the four acres ; a portion of this was not arable, as some trees 



