30 



Proofs, #c. 



Table continued. 



1st Series. 



2d Series. 



Years. 



1777 

 1778 

 1779 

 1780 

 1781 

 1782 

 1783 

 1784 

 1785 

 178G 

 1787 

 1788 

 1789 

 1790 

 1791 

 1792 

 1793 



Average, 



No of 

 Bills. 



88 



61 



66 



35 



22 



17 



13 



12 



22 



25 



21 



34 



51 



23 



34 



35 



58 



749 

 57 



Years. 



1797 

 1798 

 1799 

 1800 

 1801 

 1802 

 1803 

 1804 

 1805 

 1806 

 1807 

 1808 

 1809 

 1810 

 1811 

 1812 

 1813 



Average, 



No. of 

 Bills. 



86 



M 



65 



82 



49 

 158 



92 



52 



68 



76 



91 



92 

 122 

 107 

 155 

 156 

 185 



1,883 

 94 



There cannot be stronger evidence, of the advantages derived from 

 the establishment of a Board of Agriculture ; nor a better proof of a 

 general spirit of improvement, having been thereby excited, than what 

 this table furnishes. The extra bills of enclosure, in the 2d Series, 

 amounted to 1134; and as each bill, on an average, would promote 

 the improvement of at least 2000 acres, hence 2,268,000 acres in all, 

 must have been thus improved, in England alone, in these twenty 

 years, chiefly owing to the spirit of improvement excited by the exer- 

 tions of that establishment. 



The Board of Agriculture was continued for some years longer ; 

 but towards the end of its existence, its affairs were not conducted 

 with that spirit with which it was originally animated. The follow- 

 ing table proves the fatal effects of its extinction, which took place in 

 1821. 



Years. 



1814 

 1815 

 1816 

 1817 

 1818 

 1819 

 J820 

 1821 

 1822 



No. of Bills of 

 Enclosure. 

 116 

 79 

 45 

 32 

 41 

 43 

 39 

 35 

 14 



Years. 



1825 

 1824 

 1825 

 1826 

 1827 

 1828 

 1829 

 1850 

 J831 



No. of Bills of 

 Enclosure. 

 12 

 19 

 21 

 20 

 22 

 10 

 24 

 21 

 10 



