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fall Weight and relative Value of Corn-crops 

 Examples of Soils of greatest and least Natural 

 Fertility and of an average Soil unmanured and 

 specially manured Plants which predominate 

 in uncultivated Land 32 39 



CHAPTER IV. 



Distribution of Landed Property. 



Tendency to Diminution in Number of small Es- 

 tates Proportion of Landowners to whole Popu- 

 lation as one in a hundred These, being Heads 

 of Families, equivalent to one in twenty Hence 

 one-twentieth of Population interested in Landed 

 Property Increased to one-fifth by the Interests 

 of Tenant-farmers as part Owners of Agricul- 

 tural Property One-fifth of the Land held by 

 the Peerage Not cultivated by Owners but by 

 Farmers relative Extent of their Holdings in 

 England and in Ireland Trade and Colonies 

 enable us to dispense with Checks on Increase 

 of Population that checked in Ireland by 

 Potato Famine Decrease in Number of smallest 

 Holdings there on return of Prosperity Diminu- 

 tion of Agricultural Population artd of Yeomen 

 farming their own Land Experiment of Peasant 

 Proprietors in Ireland Plan Recommended ... 40 55 



