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systenialic and scientific luddes ofcullivaiion. So far that coun- 

 try furnishes a model for imitation, and no farther. Better would 

 it be that our agricuUure should retrograde an hundred years, 

 than that any conceivable improvement in it should be purcl)ased 

 by the adoption of the policy of that country, under which this 

 increase of production has been effected. The landlords grasp 

 all the profits, and amid this immense accession of national 

 wealth, the laborer, who has earned it all, receives only the boon 

 of the exchange of wheat bread instead of rye. An increasing 

 family, sickness or old age write his name on the list of [)aupers. 



It is true that the agricultural improvements made in Great 

 Britain have been effected under commercial regulations directly 

 designed for their encouragement. The tenure of lands has ena- 

 bled one hand to grasp the profits of many. By these and 

 other means the price of land has been kept so high that no man, 

 not already in the possession of riches, could purchase, and so 

 many hat^e been in this situation, with no dependance but their 

 labor, that they have been obliged to work on such terms as the 

 landholders imposed. In this manner to the rich has been applied 

 the stimulus of large gains, and to the poor that ol an unbending 

 necessity. The rich have made farming a study, and applied to 

 its management the rules and principles of science. The labors 

 of the tenant have received direction from the studied skill and 

 scientific knowledge of the landlord. 



We learn from this that there is an art in this business, and 

 that science may be of the greatest advantage in its direction. 

 Within the fifty years preceding 1814, about 500 volumes were 

 published in that country on agricultural subjects, and the lilies 

 of books appearing in the quarterly lists of new publications since 

 that time would seem to indicate that the annual numbers have 

 increased. This contrasts strongly with the small catalogue 

 hitherto published in the United States upon similar subjects, as 

 contained in your pamphlet of 18^}4. 



In New England the landholder and the laborer are united in 

 the same person ; and in order to the highest improvement of 

 agriculture, he should combine the industry of the British laborer, 

 which he already possesses, and the philosophy of the British 



