140 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



properties, such as draining, trenching, &c., 

 where tenants are called upon to pay 6J per- 

 cent, landlords must walk with the greatest 

 circumspection. 



Experimental and model farms are wanted 

 in every district in order to afford practical 

 information to both landlords and tenants. 

 These must be established on every different 

 geological character of soil. Practice on the 

 Oxford clay is not practice on the London clay, 

 much less on the intermediate chalk and green 

 sand soils ; neither can the science of the one 

 be joined to the practice of the other. It is not 

 diversity of practice which ought to be the ob- 

 ject of these institutions ; but successful practice, 

 suitable to the immediate districts with which 

 they stand respectively connected. They must 

 not be instruments in the hands of landlords 

 for teaching tenants superior practice, but rather 

 instruments in the hands of tenants for teaching 

 landlords : for undoubtedly the latter have the 

 most need of practical tuition. They must not 

 be subject to agricultural schools and colleges, 

 so called, for the purpose of exemplifying the 

 theories there inculcated to juvenile classes, 

 but superior institutions for the purpose of 



