24 SOME OF THE PRINCIPLES 



We are furnished, in Rees's Cyclopedia, with many 

 statements, demonstrating the superiority of the new, over 

 the old system. We will quote some of them. The 

 first comparison is made on a farm dev^oted to grazing, 

 breedins;, and tillage, of 314 acres, in Yorkshire. Under 

 the old mode of husbandry, the nett profits amounted to 

 £ol6 10s. ; under the new system the same lands gave a 

 nett profit of £596, making a difference of £278, or 

 nearly one hundred per cent., in favor of the new system. 

 The second is that of a tillage farm of 139 acres in Lin- 

 colnshire. Under the old system the profits were £130 

 — under the new £452 ; difference in favor of the latter 

 £322, or 250 per cent. The third statement exhibits the 

 profits of an acre of land, being the medium of a farm of 

 several hundred acres, in Yorkshire, for six years. Under 

 the old system the profit was £1 95. Sd. — under the new 

 £17 6s. 9d. — an increase of more than 1100 per cent. 

 The medium value of the profit per acre in England is 

 stated at from 27 to 3G dollars per annum. 



We have spoken of Mr. Coke as one of the best far- 

 mers of the age. He owns a large estate in Norfolk, 

 England, a portion of which he has been personally im- 

 proving for half a century, the residue being occupied by 

 tenants. The rental upon his estate has risen, in fifty 

 years, in consequence of the improvement in husbandry 

 which he has introduced, from £5,000, to £40,000. 



The Hofwyl Agricultural School farm, in Switzerland, 

 under M. Fellenberg, comprises 214 acres. Lord 

 Brougham, often visiting this farm, and making inquiries 

 of the Principal, says he found that the average annual 

 profit of the pattern-farm alone, for a period of four years, 

 amounted to £886 sterling, equal to about $4,000, ex- 

 clusive of the cattle concern, Avhich was kept separate. 



The last case we cite from abroad, is that of the farm 

 belonging to the Agricultural School of Moegelin, in 

 Prussia, under Doctor Von Thaer. The school was 

 established in 1809. In twelve years the value of the 

 farm was increased from 2,000 to 12,000 rix dollars, by 

 the improved mode of cultivating it. 



The cases we have quoted, we admit to be extraordi- 



