8 NOTES. 



p. 196. In America, every fire-place requires at least ten acres. Madison's 

 Address, American Farmer, Sept. 3. 1819. 



1 49 Where estates are very small, it is impossible that many farms can be 

 large ; for a great number of proprietors would never agree to let .small por- 

 tions of their little properties to the same farmer. 



150 Dr Rigby's Report, p. 92. 



151 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. v. p. 422. 



152 Somerset Report, p. 84. It is said that a dairy farm should not exceed 

 50 cows, which is as many as one family can well manage. 



153 It would be well worth while for the dairy farmers in England, Scot- 

 land, and Ireland, to visit the Flemish and Dutch dairies, where they might 

 derive many useful hints, regarding the most advantageous management of 

 that branch of husbandry. In the Harleyan dairy system, there is a good ac- 

 count of the Dutch dairies, p. 162. 



154 Ayrshire Report, p. 430. 



155 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 126. 



156 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. i. p. 141. 



157 See the Appendix, No, I. 



158 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 164; General Report of Scotland, 

 vol. i. p. 1 82. 



159 Sir William Strickland's Observations on the United States of America, 

 in the Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. ii. p. 154, 155. 



160 General Report of Scotland, vol. p. i. 176. 



161 The Rev. Dr Cartwright recollects a curious circumstance of a person 

 who resided, about fifty years ago, in a village on the road between Newark 

 upon Trent and Sleaford, who having been obliged to sell his estate, took it on 

 lease, and made as a farmer, so much money, that he was able to re-purchase 

 it. Small proprietors in general, are seldom possessed of capital sufficient to 

 improve their lands, and frequently indulge notions, which disqualify them 

 from the pursuits of industry. Dumbartonshire Report, p. 20. Hence, in 

 the progress of society, this class of men gradually disappear. Stirlingshire 

 Report, p. 69. The fact is, that it is found more profitable, to have a capital 

 in money, judiciously employed in farming, than a capital in land. A man 

 is more likely to thrive, and to be a useful member of society, who is the pos- 

 sessor of a moderate fortune in money, which he can employ in farming or in 

 any other occupation, than even a greater amount or value in land, which he 

 may find it difficult to stock, or to manage, and which may prevent him from 

 engaging in other occupations, from which he might derive more advantage. 



162 Staffordshire Report, p. 50 ; Ayrshire Report, p. 77. 



163 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 172; Husbandry of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. p. 139. 



164 Cicero, in his Cato Major, has well observed, " That there cannot be a 

 richer, or a more ornamental object, than a well- cultivated field. Agro bene 

 culto, nilpotest esse, nee usu vberius, nee specie ornatius." 



165 Dr Coventry's Discourses, p. 55. 



166 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 172 ; Dr Coventry's Discourses, 

 p. 59 ; Kent Report, p. 50. 



167 Gloucestershire Report, p. 34. 



168 Among these, the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Egremont, Lord So- 

 merville, Sir Joseph Banks, Mr Coke in Norfolk, Mr Western in Essex, 

 Mr Curwen in Cumberland, Sir W. W. Wynne, and Sir Robert W. Vaughan 

 in Wales, and others might be enumerated. 



This has likewise been much the case in Ireland, where, of late years, the 

 landed proprietors have become agriculturists, either through necessity, (not 

 having been able to dispose of their lands to advantage), or from having caught 

 the patriotic spirit of improvement, so laudably set by the sister kingdom. 

 This has been attended with many beneficial consequences to that country. 

 Gentlemen, instead of devoting their time only to pleasure and amusement, as 

 was formerly the case, are now proud of being considered zealous improvers 



