328 Marquis of Sligo's Farming Establishment, 



intelligent person, and has about ten acres of 

 the Swedish and common turnips under tolera- 

 bly good cultivation ; but the present state of 

 the farm proclaims its success to be only a se- 

 condary consideration, and no longer the object 

 of patriotic pride and solicitude in the pro- 

 prietor. Wherever this is the case, and that 

 farming, under the immediate direction of a 

 nobleman or gentleman, is not made a business 

 of the first importance in the estimation of the 

 operative parties, neither the time nor the ex- 

 pense bestowed on it will bring it to that perfec- 

 tion it ought to attain, or ensure those profitable 

 returns, which, as a pattern of husbandry for the 

 imitation of the surrounding estates, ought to 

 be the principal inducement on the commence- 

 ment of the undertaking. 



The late Marquis seemed to have taken great 

 pleasure in planting, and to have expended 

 much of his noble fortune in the embellishment 

 of his place and improvements in the town, to 

 which his labors and expense seem to have been 

 exclusively confined; there being no existing 

 evidence that he entertained by his experi- 

 ments any liberal plan for promoting a gene- 

 ral improved system of cultivation in the 

 country, or even in that of his own immense ter- 

 ritory, which uniformly presents the reverse of 



