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can look with greater confidence than to Mr. Windham, whose 

 natural acuteness, partiality to agricultural pursuits, and con- 

 stant residence upon his estate, eminently qualify him to lead 

 the way in a movement of so much importance to the nation. 



As Mr. Windham is an example to landed proprietors, so 

 is his steward to all with whom similar trusts are reposed. 

 His inquiries and conclusions on my premises last week evinced 

 a thorough regardlessness to trouble, so long as there was 

 a y)rospect of advancing his employer s interest ; and I am not 

 without a hope, that the mention of this circumstance may 

 rouse other farm-stewards to a sense of their duty. 



The time has arrived, when the farmer's profit neither can 

 nor ought to depend on a high price for wheat. It cannot, 

 because of the rapidly increasing population, the major part of 

 which, being born to poverty, must necessarily be maintained 

 on cheap bread. — It ought not, because it is the duty as well 

 as the interest of the farmer, to meet their wants by increased 

 production ; his duty, because the soil is a talent committed 

 to his charge for the benefit of others — his interest, because 

 the more he can make the earth produce the greater will be 

 his gain. 



The legislature aimed at obtaining cheap provisions through 

 the corn bill and the tariff, not being aware, I suppose, of the 

 immeasurable resources of this country, or why offer a stimulus 

 to foreign, rather than to British, agriculture ? 



The Anti- Corn-Law League point to the half cultivated 

 fields, and tell the starving population that the landlord 

 and tenant are cumberers, not tillers of the ground. However 

 just or unjust this reproach, I strenuously maintain, that a suffi- 

 cient supply of the common necessaries of life for the popu- 

 lation of the kingdom can be obtained from our own resources, 

 provided the system of grazing double or triple the number of 

 stock were carried into effect ; because it is but reasonable to 

 infer that double or triple the quantity of manure would ne- 

 cessarily increase production. Besides, the vast additional 

 supply of meat would -lessen the demand for wheat — equalise 

 the price of each — enable the poor to purchase one as well as 

 the other, and obviate the necessity of foreign aid. To whatever 

 quarter we turn, the price of meat in particular is found too 



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