28 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



of Barrochan, Mr. M'Culloch of Auchness, and 

 Mr. George Hope, in Scotland ; Lord Lucan, 

 Mr. St. John Jeffryes, and Mr. Boyd, of Castle- 

 wellan, in Ireland, and many others, then carried 

 out the business of farming in a manner that 

 would bear favourable comparison with the 

 prize-farms of the present year. And, as to 

 breeds of cattle and sheep, the brothers Ceiling's 

 and Messrs. Booth's and Mr. Bates's Shorthorns ; 

 George Turner's and the Messrs. Quartley's 

 Devons ; Mr. Bakewell's Leicesters ; Jonas Webb's 

 Southdowns are not surpassed by the best of 

 the present day. The change has been not in 

 any considerable progress beyond what was 

 then the best, but in a general upheaval of the 

 middling and the worst towards the higher 

 platform then occupied by the few. 

 influence Towards this end, but beyond all efforts 



upon agri- 



culture of of the agriculturists themselves, or of the engi- 



the general 



prosperity neers and chemists who have done so much 



of the 



country in to aid them in developing the capabilities of 

 the rise of 



the price the land, has been the influence of the general 



of meat, 



and the prosperity and growing trade and wealth of the 



consequent r 



increase in coun try. Thirty years ago, probably not more 



