250 AGRICULTURE. 



perity who get through it before they are subjected to the 

 full force of domestic as well as of foreign competition. 

 When the revolution is effected, we cannot be blind to the 

 following considerations : Mr. Pusey says that England 

 has the best climate in the world for farming ; and per- 

 haps, if we couple green crops with cereals, this opinion is 

 correct. England affords the best market in the world ; 

 has (in our own hemisphere) the most concentrated popu- 

 lation, and the best communications; furnishes the best 

 and cheapest implements and machinery. Money is ha- 

 bitually cheaper in England than in any other country. In 

 works of labour and of skill Englishmen challenge the 

 world for efficiency. The existing laws are oppressive to 

 agriculture, but we have a right to expect that justice will 

 prevail, and that agriculture will be relieved. These are 

 surely elements of prospective prosperity. Still, looking to 

 unlimited competition, and bearing strongly in mind how 

 difficult it will be to subject husbandry, which cannot shift 

 the venue, and which must be more or less tied to existing 

 institutions, to the purely-economical regulations which 

 would be adopted in a newly-established manufacture, we 

 would rather express our opinion of prospective arable 

 prosperity negatively than positively. 



1st. We believe that no arable farm will prosper which 

 has not, at the least possible outlay of dead capital, buildings 

 which, in extent and arrangement, and position, will facilitate 

 the greatest economy of labour. 



2nd. That no arable farm will prosper on which, from 

 want of concentration or of good roads, the internal com- 

 munications are inconvenient and expensive. 



3rd. That no arable farm will prosper which is not of 

 sufficient size to employ economically the most efficient 

 implements suited to its texture, the best machinery, and 

 probably steam-power. 



4th. That no arable farm will prosper which does not give 

 facilities for the economical production and good manage- 

 ment of manure when such facilities have been discovered ; 



