1^8 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



From Mr. Boys :— " If farmers, in genera!, were to ao 

 " commodate their labourers with two acres of land, a cow, 

 " and two or three pigs, they would probably have more dif- 

 " ficulty in getting their hard work done — as the cow, land, 

 " &c. would enable them to live with lefs earnings. 



(/) From Mr. Howlett :— " This indulgence to the labour- 

 " er is, undoubtedly, a matter of kindnefs and humanity in 

 " the mafter, but it feems by no means incumbent upon him, 

 •' or if it be, it is equally fo upon the employers of manufac- 

 M turers; and if this abatement of price be requisite in one 

 f 1 article, upon fimilar occafions, it muft be equally neceffary 

 " in all, and this would, in the end, be the fame as an ad- 

 " vance of wages, which furely ought not to depend on the 

 " choice or caprice of individuals, but be under the infpection 

 *' and regulation of the public, as expediency might require." 



(g) From Mr. Howlett likewife : — " Mr. Ackland's plan, 

 " in my apprehenfion, is, by much, the beft that has yet been 

 " propofed to the legiflature. If put in execution, it would 

 ** probably be attended with fome beneficial confequences, 

 " though certainly neither to the degree nor the extent here 

 " intimated. It makes no provifion for natural weaknefs 

 " and debility of conflitution, for occasional deficiency or 

 «♦ fcarcity of employment, for feverity of feafons, and varia- 

 " tion in the price of provifions; befides that, the whole goes 

 •'upon the fundamental error, that the podible earnings of 

 " the poor are univerfaliy adequate to their neceffities." 



From Mr. Fox : — " It gives me much pleafure to per- 

 ". ceive the ideas I have given on this fubje£t, (in my Note II. 

 M on my fecond perufal of the Report for Gloucefterfhire) 

 K fo appofitely fupported by the author." 



[h) From Mr. James: — " Some fuch plan would, no doubt 7 

 « be very beneficial, but the prefent price of labour will by 



