310 AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



have continued to advance until, according to the 

 estimate of Sir John Sinclair and Professor Lowe, 

 both high authority, until the acreable products of 

 her soil more than double those of our Atlantic 

 states. 



The means adopted by the Highland Society to 

 effect these radical improvements in Scottish hus- 

 bandry are such as may be employed by us with al- 

 most a certainty of corresponding success. " In the 

 days of its youth and feebleness," says the Quarterly 

 Journal which I have just quoted, "the Highland 

 Society sent the leaven of the turnip husbandry into 

 all the glens and straths of the North, by offers of 

 small prizes to certain Highland parishes, and the 

 same may be said as to the growth of clover and the 

 finer grasses. As it advanced in strength as to num- 

 bers and to cash, attention was turned to premiums 

 for stock ; then came offers of reward to men of sci- 

 ence to discover better implements and machines, to 

 diminish friction, and consequently draught, such as 

 in the threshing-mill, and other parts of agricultural 

 machinery. Still advancing in the scale of intellect 

 and of science, premiums were offered for essays to 

 bring to light the facts connected with chyrnistry 

 and natural philosophy ; and under the auspices of 

 the society was set up the Quarterly Journal of Ag- 

 riculture, a work which has been the vehicle of con- 

 veying so much useful information to the agricultu- 

 rist, that we humbly venture to say it ought to ap- 

 pear on the bookshelf and table of every farmer's 

 parlour. After this, the great stock shows were re- 

 solved upon." At the Glasgow show in 1838 there 

 were exhibited for prizes 461 neat cattle, 1*21 horses, 

 274 sheep, and 47 swine ; total, 903 domestic ani- 

 mals, in 031 lots. Of the other competitors the 

 numbers were as follows : 



