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lution profits increased rapidly, and with tliem rose com- 

 petition and rents for land. Long leases were given and 

 large farms, and every rood of soil was put in requisition ; 

 large stones were dug up and removed in order to obtain 

 an arable surface ; bogs were drained, and open lands 

 enclosed. The fall of prices brought reductions of rent, 

 failure of tenants, changes of ownership and occupancy. 

 But the high state of cultivation which was stimulated by 

 unexampled prosperity was maintained. A substitute for 

 high prices was provided by the increased produce which 

 resulted from manure, drainage, subsoil ploughing, and 

 other results of the union of science with practice. 



Similar changes might be noted in almost every county. 

 One other instance will suffice. Before Mr. Pusey's Com- 

 mittee on Tenant Right in 1848 a witness was asked 

 what had been the increase of produce in Lincolnshire in 

 consequence of improved farming. He replied : ' The in- 

 crease has been from almost nothing to thirty-two and 

 thirty-six bushels of wheat to an acre. It was formerly 

 little more than a rabbit warren, only thirtj-five years 

 ago.' 



