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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGKICULTUIIK. 



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The remedy which the admirable writer quoted suggests is, " Not the curtailment of the employment of 

 women in the field, but an extension of it ; a thorough revision of all the engagements between landlord 

 and tenant ; the complete emancipation of the tenantry from political subjection ; the .abolition of the 

 variable rates of wages, dependent on a man's being married or unmarried; the establishment of agri- 

 cultural schools for farmers ; of national schools for all children, with no religious intermeddling what- 

 ever, save through the influence that may be exercised in the pulpit .and in visitation to the houses of 

 parents; an enactment compelling cottages to be equally good with those lately built by the Duke of 

 Wellington for his labourers at Strathfieldsaye, with gardens not less in size, to wit, each a quarter of 

 an acre; or as good as those cottages built for their workpeople by the Messrs. Ashworth and some other 

 Lancashire manufacturers, as described in the Sanitary Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 

 published in 1842, and Suppl. F.ncyc. Colt. Arch. p. 1154. To discourage the giving of beer to labourers 

 as a part of their wages. To encourage the paying of workpeople by so much a day, or week, or 

 month, or year, and not by piece-work. To give tenant farmers full power to break up all old grass 

 lands, and crop each his own farm, as he sees most fit ; that is, if he proves himself to be trustworthy in 

 regard of knowledge and capital. To give him security of tenure, that he may obtain capital. To take 

 from him, at once and for ever, all delusion about protection from commercial competition, and let 

 increased commerce give him an increased demand for his produce. To have all rents regulated 

 by the prices of produce. To depart from the ruinous custom of an incoming tenant paying for all 

 the work which the outgoing tenant has done in improvements, real or supposed. To let each 

 tenant, on the contrary, come in free, and commence with his capital to improve his farm himself, giving 

 him at least twenty years to reap the benefits, so that n Inn In- goes out he may carry the profits of his 

 improvements with him, and not take their supposed value out of the pocket of his successor. To give 

 better diet to the really helpless of the poor in the workhouses, and sufficient out-door relief to the aged 

 who may desire to remain in the home of their affections. To send all able-bodied labourers who are 

 willing to work and cannot find employment, to the cultivation of the crown lands, or other estates that 

 maybe procured and used for the purpose of agricultural schools ; but never to send them to breakstone:; 

 or grind bones in a workhouse, as a punishment. To put an end to all poaching and poachers, by putting 

 an end to all game and game-laws, ami giving gamekeepers a more useful employment. 



These are a lew of the remedies for the present condition of the farm labourers. They are hastily 



