HIGH FARMING. 231 



Flanders are monotonous in contrast with England. In 

 none has so much been effected. And, after ten years' 

 labour, the same thing still strikes me as forcibly. It is on 

 these recognised practical improvements that our depen- 

 dence, I firmly believe, must be now placed. Not only, too, 

 have we these varied means, but most of them are very 

 cheap means. They would average three or four pounds an 

 acre, and the crops are increased by them, be it remem- 

 bered, without increase of the tenant's outlay. I know no 

 other safe investment in which moderate expense produces 

 so large a result of profit as in many of these permanent 

 improvements of land. At the present time, however, the 

 landlord's anxiety is, to avoid permanent loss of income. 

 He should, therefore, raise the productive power of each 

 farm, and there are very few farms on which the owner, 

 consulting with the tenant, may not find some effective and 

 cheap improvements to make." Pusey, pp. 22, 23. 



The improvement of land is then ranged under twelve 

 heads, of which some are of general, some of local, and 

 two or three, we think, of rather questionable application. 

 Draining stands first in the list, and we are far from 

 questioning the propriety of its precedence. But, before 

 we proceed further, we must make a professional appeal to 

 the editor of the " Koyal Agricultural Journal." We do so 

 because, in the matter to which we refer, he has more 

 power than any other person ; and though we shall inter- 

 rupt the current of our ideas, and the thread of our dis- 

 course, we cannot consent to hide our appeal in the ob- 

 scurity of a note. We seldom read a paper in the Journal, 

 or in any other agricultural publication, without encoun- 

 tering some local term or phrase with which we are wholly 

 unacquainted. We entreat the editor to reform the voca- 

 bulary of agriculture, first by his own practice, and then by 

 his influence. We appeal from Mr. Pusey to the editor. 

 Mr. Pusey states the depth of his drains in feet and inches, 

 and the intervals in yards and feet, but he states the length 

 in poles. Why this should be, unless it has some sly re- 



