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NOTES. 



CHAP. II. 



1 Wilts Report, p. 26. It has been justly remarked, that farmers in gene- 

 ral, cannot make their transfers of property, so frequently as manufacturers and 

 merchants ; hence they have occasion for, proportionally, even a greater capital 

 at command. The shifts that farmers are often obliged to resort to, for raising 

 money, are highly detrimental to their real interests. 



2 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 391. 



5 North Riding Report, p. 76. 4 Warwickshire Report, p. 43. 



5 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 392. 



6 The culture of hops, a species of gardening, requires a capital of from L.50 

 to L. 60 per acre. Young's Calendar, p. 482. 



7 Leicestershire Report, p. 115. 



8 In Essex, L. 1 5 per acre is necessary, where draining and chalking are es- 

 sential. In Flanders, L.6, 5s. per English acre is required. The sum is often 

 lower, but then the farmer in general fails, unless he is assisted by an industrious 

 family, or is fortunate in other respects. Hints on the Agricultural State of the 

 Netherlands, p. 9. 



9 Cambridgeshire Report, p. 42. 



10 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 182; General Report of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. p. 343. 



1 1 The following interesting account is given of the value of the crops on a 

 farm of 530 acres, within seven miles of London, and in the county of Kent, by 

 the occupier, Mr Dickson of Kidbrooke, near Blackheath. 



The annual rent of this farm is L. 1 500. The farm is tithe free, and extra-pa- 

 rochial. The result is, that for an expenditure of L.5300, or about L. 10 per 

 acre, the produce of a farm of 530 acres, was raised from L.2635 to L.5138, 

 per annum, or nearly double. 



Nothing then is wanting to double the produce of the country, but skill and 

 capital, by the proper application of which, our agricultural produce might be 

 doubled, and instead of being an importing, we might again become an exporting 

 country. 



12 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 192. The statement is printed in the 

 Appendix to this work, No. IV. " On Farming Accounts." 



13 See the particulars in " Hints on the Agricultural State of the Netherlands," 

 by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart, printed anno 1815, Ap- 

 pendix, No. III. 



14 South Wales Report, vol. i. p. 180. 



