28 The Landed Interest. 



^j^g But, with the exception of the reaping- 



the"fsV^ machine and steam-plough, and the more gene- 

 more m^"^^ ral use of steam-power, and other implements 

 diffu^ion'^of and machines, there is really little that is new 



improved . ,, ^- r i i r 



practices, ^^ the practice of the last quarter of a century. 



and better „, r ^ • • i 



live-stock, i ns present system of dramage was previously 



than in 



the intro- well Understood. Bones, guano, and nitrate of 



duction of 



new soda were fully appreciated by those who then 



systems. 



used them. Covered buildings and autumn 



cultivation had been introduced. Mr. Hudson, 

 of Castleacre, in Norfolk, then manured his land 

 for every crop. In running my eye over the 

 account which I wrote of English agriculture 

 in 1850, I find descriptions of good farming 

 in nearly every part of the country, the details 

 of which differ wQry little from the practice of 

 the present day. Mr. Pusey and Sir John 

 Conroy in Berkshire ; Mr. Thomas in Bedford- 

 shire ; Mr. Beasley in Northampton ; Mr. Paget 

 in Notts ; Mr. Torr in Lincoln ; Mr. Mechi, Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, and Mr. Hutley, in Essex ; Mr. 

 Huxtable in Dorset ; Jonas Webb in Cambridge- 

 shire; Mr. Morton in Gloucestershire; the Messrs. 

 Wells and Outhwaite in Yorkshire ; Mr. Fleming 



