14 NOTES. 



23 The extent should only contain the land cultivated ; the fences and bor- 

 ders on a farm, should be thrown into one mass. Young's Calendar, p. 588. 



24 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 419. 



25 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 420. The Farmer's Calendar, pub- 

 lished by Mr Arthur Young, contains much valuable information, and would 

 furnish many useful hints, for the general memorandum book of business to be 

 done. 



26 Leatham's Survey of the East Riding, p. 61. 



27 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 420. 



28 Young's Calendar, p. 51. 



29 Leatham's Survey of the East Riding, p. 6 1 . 

 SO Young's Calendar, p. 437. 



31 Young's Calendar, p. 483. 32 Ibid. p. 485. 



53 The ploughing-matches so frequent in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 

 have been the source of much improvement in this important operation. 



34 Bedfordshire Report, p. 582. This practice prevails much in Flanders. 

 It is productive of much order and decency at meals ; and the farmer is thus 

 enabled to return with his men to the work, which may not be the case, when 

 they eat separately. Comm.from the Rev. Thos- Radcliffe. 



35 Young's Norfolk, p. 48. 36 Young's Calendar, p. 485. 

 37 Bedfordshire Report, p. 580. 38 Surrey Report, p. 540. 



S9 Monmouthshire Report, p. 96. 40 Staffordshire Report, p. 157. 



41 Mr Curwen has erected a dozen of cottages for his carters, adjoining to 

 his farm buildings, that the excuse of being a mile and a half from the stables 

 should cease to be an apology for due attention to the horses, and cleaning and 

 dressing them at eight o'clock every night ; it being a well-founded maxim, 

 that good grooming is as necessary, and almost equal to good feeding. The 

 advantages derived from this alteration soon became apparent. Curwen *s Re- 

 2)ort, p. 78. 



42 This system is fully detailed in the Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 

 240, also in the General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 226. See likewise the 

 West Riding Report, p. 13, and the Surrey Report, p. 540. Both in Berwick- 

 shire and Roxburghshire, many farmers have but one unmarried male servant 

 kept on their farm. General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 241, note. 



43 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 280. 



44 West Riding Report, p. 203. 



45 Devon Report, p. 359 ; Cornwall Report, p. 85. 



46 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 106. 



47 General Report of Scotland, vol. iv. p. 237. 



48 Letter from the Earl of Winchilsea ; Communications to the Board of 

 Agriculture, vol. i. p. 80. Many instances are known in Ireland, of labour- 

 ers who were idle and ill conducted, becoming industrious and peaceable, on 

 obtaining an acre or two of land, to engage them in domestic pursuits. In- 

 deed the Irish peasant prefers what he terms, " his little garden," to any in- 

 crease of wages which might be considered an equivalent ; it is, however, often 

 the case, that his poverty incapacitates him from cultivating it to advantage, 

 and thence it becomes a burden to him ; being necessitated to pay a heavy 

 rent, and foregoing, for that accommodation, a certain portion of his wages. 

 Remark by Edward JBurroughs t Esq. 



49 Remarks by Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart. Cheshire Report, p. 87, 

 note. The gaining of a settlement, by a year of hired servitude, is the occasion 

 of endless feuds and frauds, litigation and expense. 



50 Berkshire Report, p. 75. 



51 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 105. 



52 In Ireland, the labourer has, in some cases, grass for a cow supplied by 

 the occupier of the farm, during the six summer months, at from two to three 

 guineas ; and v/ith his cottage, at least a plantation acre, one half for potatoes, 



