74 LAND-IMPROVING SCHEME PROPOSED. 



a revenue of some 40,000,0007. annually, and 

 the nation 100,000,0007. The workman no 

 sooner receives his wages than he pays them 

 away for food and clothing. The merchant 

 and manufacturer return the same to the 

 farmer for the raw produce of the soil. Let 

 the labour be productive, and it will support 

 the workmen. 



There is perhaps no class of the British 

 community who have greater difficulty in making 

 a provision for their families in accordance 

 with their rank than landowners. Many of them 

 are left to provide for brothers and sisters at 

 the demise of their parents, to the neglect of 

 their own families, who in their turn become 

 a burden upon the heir of the patrimonial in- 

 heritance. The system is unnatural. It has 

 often occurred to us, that they, as a body, 

 ought to institute a land-improving scheme, of 

 a national character, having for its object the 

 procuring, from permanent improvements effected 

 upon the soil, annuities for the younger members 

 of their families. 



It is obvious that money invested in any 

 improvement returning 6^ per cent, will in 

 course of time redeem itself, and also mean- 



