1078 STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE, Part IV. 



6938. Court farmer, {Hoffrneyer, Ger. ; Grangero da la corte, Span. ; Agronome de la 

 cour, Fr. ; and FcUlore della corte, Ital.), maybe considered the highest step, the xiimynum 

 bonum of agricultural servitude. The late Ramsay Robinson, Esq. was liailiff' to 

 Geo. III. ; his sister, Miss Robinson, was royal dairy-woman; and Sir Joseph Banks, 

 royal shepherd. 



Sect. II. Commercial Agriculturists. 



6939. The first grade here is the jobbing farmer, who keeps a team, a cart, plough, 

 pair of harrows, and probably one or two hand implements. He hires himself by the day, 

 week, or by the acre to plough, sow, or labor the small spots of ground of tradesmen who 

 keep a cow but no laboring stock ; or to assist farmers who are behind with their labors. 

 The contractors for executing works devised by the agricultural engineer (6969.), though 

 widely separated in point of wealth from the common jobber, yet belong to the same 

 species ; both agree in selling their labor and skill in a raw state, not when manufactured 

 into produce like the other commercial agriculturist. 



6940. Itinerant agriculturists are of two kinds ; such as take grounds for the culture 

 of one or two crops of particular sorts of plants, as woad, flax, &c. (5364.) ; and such as 

 travel with a plough and pair, &c. to teach that operation to young farmers, or their ser- 

 vants, a practice at one time carried on in Ireland under the patronage of the Dublin 

 Society. 



6941. Cottage farmers are such as possess a cottage and an acre or two of land, which 

 they may either keep in aration or pasture ; disposing of the corn, green crops, or 

 dairy produce in various ways, according to local circumstances. 



6942. Poultry farmers, such as devote themselves chiefly to the breeding, rearing, 

 and fattening of poultry, and the growing of feathers and quills. 



6943. Garden farmers axii such as possess lands near large towns, or sea-ports, and 

 grow the commoner garden vegetables, as pease, onions, cabbages, &c. for the market ; 

 or herbs for the distillers and druggists. 



6944. Seed farmers. Small farmers who devote themselves chiefly to the growing of 

 garden seeds for the London seedsmen, and for the distillery. They are to be found 

 only in a (tiw counties in the central and southern districts of England, and chiefly in 

 Kent and Essex. (See Encyc. of Gar d. 2d edit. 7390.) 



6945. Orchard farmers are such as farm grass or arable orchards, sometimes joined to 

 hop lands and garden farms; often with a small dairy ; with rearing of poultry, rabbits, 

 &c., and sometimes with the breeding and training of dogs ; the latter a very lucrative 

 branch when well understood. 



6946. Hop farmers, such as make hops a principal article of cultivation, to which are 

 sometimes joined garden and orchard farming. 



6947. Milk or cow farmers, such as keep cows for selling their milk in an unmanu- 

 factured state. These farmers are of course limited to populous neighborhoods. Cow- 

 keepers differ from cow-farmers, in having their establishments in towns, and in pur- 

 chasing, not growing, their cow provender. 



6948. Dairy farmers, such as keep cows and manufacture their milk into butter or cheese. 

 These are most common in rich moist flat districts, as Cheshire, part of Gloucestershire, 

 Leicestershire, &c. 



6949. Graziers, feLrmcrs whose chief business consists in buying, feeding, and selling 

 cattle and sheep. Their farms arc chiefly in old pasture, and they are more commonly 

 feeders then breeders. The most extensive in England arc in Leicestershire and Lin- 

 colnshire. 



6950. Stockfarmers, such as devote themselves to breeding and rearing different kinds 

 of live stock, especially horses and cattle. They are most common in Yorkshire. 



6951. Store farmers, breeders who devote themselves chiefly to the sheep and cattle fami- 

 lies. They are common in the border counties, in Wales, and in the Highlands. 



6952. Hay farmers Sive confined to a small district round London; where tliey grow 

 chiefly natural or meadow hay for the London coach and saddle horses, and for cow- 

 keepers. 



6953. Corn-farmers, as opposed to hay, dairy, grazing, and breeding farmers, is a 

 term employed to such as occupy lands more adapted for the plough than for pasturage, 

 as arable clays and loams. 



6954. Woudfarmers, such as rent woodlands, to be periodically cut for fuel, bark, 

 fence-wood, charcoal, or other purposes. 



6955. Quarry-farmer S) such as rent quarries of lime or other stone, gravel-pits, clay- 

 fields, marle-pits, &c. 



6956. Mine-farmers, or master miners or mine-holders, such as rent coal-mines, or 

 mines of iron, lead, or other metals. 



6957. Sabnon or river farmers, or fishery renters, such as rent rivers or ponds for ti>e 

 sake of their fish. 



