62 Scotch and English Farmers compared. 



I could not help regretting the want of atten- 

 tion in others to the manifest superiority of my 

 friend's management. His success will not be 

 complete until his example be generally fol- 

 lowed. A striking instance presented itself of 

 good and bad farming. I am persuaded, had 

 any one consulted the person whose crops had 

 so failed, and had proposed the practices he 

 had himself adopted, that he would have used 

 every endeavour to dissuade his near neighbour 

 from them. 



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What he must have hoped would answer for 

 himself, he would have had no doubt would fail 

 in the hands of another. 



However great were the gratifications of the 

 morning, those of the evening were by no 

 means of an inferior description. A party of 

 the most skilful farmers in the neighbourhood 

 were assembled at dinner. Agriculture in Scot- 

 land has arrived at its present perfection by its 

 being pursued on scientific principles, under 

 the direction of intelligent persons, whose edu- 

 cation entitles them to think, and whose confi- 

 dence in well-tried experiments teaches them to 

 act for themselves, while the generality of 

 farmers in most parts of England are bigotted 



