(Py | 
“In wheat and rye, © - ~ -' - = 2,000,000 
- In peas, beans, and buckwheat,  - 2,000,000 
In barley and oats, §- = —- + 4,000,000 
In fallow, or in turnips or cabbages,‘ 3,400,000 
The lands in wheat and rye yield, on an average 
of ten years, three quurters per acre, or 6,000,000 
quarters; yet is there an annual d-ficit in England 
of 1,820,000 quarters, which must be drawn from 
ae markets.(1) | Bam 
There is certainly nothing very flattering i in ahs 
view of English agriculture; but it may be said to 
be one of statists and politicians, and probably un- 
derrated. Let us then see what their own most 
eminent agriculturists, their Young and St. Clair, 
and Dickson and Marshal, say on this subject —* A 
very small portion of the cultivated parts of Great 
‘Britain is, to this day, submitted to a judicious and 
qwell conducted system of husbandry ; notin fact more 
than four counties (Norfolk, Sussex, Essex. and 
Kent:) while many large tracts of excellent soil-are 
‘managed in a nay the most imperfect and aint 
vantageous.”( 2) | 
- Noris her management of cattle better. “Consider- 
ing the domestic animals in a general way, we find 
each species, and almost every race, capable of great 
improvement, and with a few exceptions, the sheep 
much neglected. Insome districts are whole races 
of cattle capable of improvement (within a rea- 
cs 2 
(1) A quarter is equal to six bushels, and the average produce in wheat and rye 
18 bushels per acre. For the whole kingdom the deficit is 2,820,000 quarters. See 
Geographic Mathematique, vol. _—_ art. Great Britain. 
(2) See the introduction to Dickson’s Practical Agriculture, 2d vol. quarte, | 
