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of their own estates, and do not consider a knowledge of rural affairs deroga- 

 tory to their condition in life. Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



169 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 140. Formerly a nobleman, who 

 directed his attention to experiments in cultivating the various useful tribes 

 of the vegetable kingdom, was considered by his brother peers as degrading his 

 high station in life. But now, what a change ! Every where proprietors are 

 to be met with, who, by every means in their power, either by precept, by 

 example of improved culture, by publications, or by premiums, combat the 

 prejudices of their uninformed tenantry, and become a blessing to their 

 neighbourhood. South Wales Report, vol. i. p. 178. In Ireland also, many 

 of the nobility and gentry have become intelligent farmers ; but as they seldom 

 attend to the practical part of it, they often find it difficult to prevail upon their 

 stewards to follow any new system. It frequently happens, that a failure in 

 this case, either through ignorance or obstinacy, prevents a repetition of the in- 

 tended improvement. Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



170 Cornish Report, p. 17. 



171 Some are of opinion, that instead of this kind of experimental farming, 

 it would be of more advantage, both to the proprietor and to the district, to 

 encourage a farmer from another county to set the example, as farmers are, in 

 general, more ready to imitate the practice of their equals than that of a large 

 proprietor, who is so far removed from their own station in society, and, as they 

 observe, who pays no rent for his land. General Report of Scotland, vol. i. 

 p. 172. 



172 In Scotland, this plan has been frequently adopted, and with much suc- 

 cess. The exertions of an Earl of Findlater, of a Craik of Arbigland, of a 

 Robert Barclay of Ury, of a Henry Home Lord Kames, stand eminently con- 

 spicuous in that honourable list. 



173 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 173. 



174 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 224. 



175 See Aiton's Survey of Ayrshire, p. 175. 



176 See the Foreign Quarterly Review by Treutell, No. 8, August 1829, 

 p. 484. On the kiting of land, or the Metayer system, in Dombasle's Annale* 

 Agricoles de Roville, 1824-1828, 4 vols. 8vo, Paris. Lewis's Translation of 

 Boech's works, on the Public Economy of Athens, vol. ii. p. 15. 



177 Sussex Report, p. 43. 



178 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 187. 



179 The propriety of varying, to a certain extent, the payments in money, ac- 

 cording to the price of grain, shall be discussed in the succeeding section. 



180 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 194; also Dumbartonshire Re- 

 port, p. 48, 49, &c. In imposing such payments and services on his tenants, 

 a landlord in fact buys the worst poultry, at the highest price, and pays for a 

 little work, imperfectly executed, more than would have hired the best work- 

 men to accomplish the same labour ; while the improvement of his lands is 

 retarded, and the progressive rise of his rents is checked. P. 45. 



181 Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxiii. p. 338. Mr Young here justly ques- 

 tions the good sense and understanding of those landlords, who argue against 

 rich tenants ; who are jealous of seeing a farmer on a good horse ; and think 

 it presumption in him to drink a bottle of wine. In other words, it is saying, 

 that it is better to receive only 1 2s. than 20s. of rent, per acre. 



182 Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



183 It is an old remark, that every arable farm ought to produce three 

 rents ; one for the landlord, one for the expense of management, and one for 

 the farmer ; to which a fourth ought now to be added, for taxes, and parochial 

 assessments. 



184 The use of two-horse ploughs, and the invention of the thrashing-mill, 

 by augmenting the disposable produce, have greatly augmented the rents in 

 Scotland. 



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