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estates, by the only way in which this can be done, viz. by im- 

 proving the agriculture practised on them. There are some 

 excellent articles in the present part; and perhaps the most va- 

 luable is one by Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., entitled Experimental 

 Inquiry on Draught in Ploughing. Our countrymen in the 

 North will be not a little astonished to find that there is a plough, 

 of English origin and construction, and with one wheel (!), 

 which is easier drawn, and makes a better furrow than the most 

 improved form of Scotch ploughs sent out by Messrs. Drum- 

 mond of Stirling, in the proportion: trial 1., of 14 to 19^; 

 trial 2,, of 43 to 51 : trial 3., of 1 1 to 17i; and trial 4., of 23 

 to 34. The implement is called Hart's improved Berks One- 

 wheeled Plough. We cannot spare room to go into details, 

 but we most strongly recommend the article to all Scotch farm- 

 ers and bailiffs. The great fault of us Scotchmen is, our strong 

 prejudices in favour of whoever or whatever is Scotch ; so general 

 and powerful are these prejudices, that, when a Scotch bailiff' or 

 farmer first comes to England, he generally finds nothing good 

 there in the way of agriculture, but what corresponds with what 

 he has seen in Scotland ; making no allowance for difference of 

 climate and other circumstances. We do not say that there are 

 not many exceptions among the more enlightened Scotch bailiffs 

 and stewards ; we merely assert that this is the general feeling. 

 Nothing will tend so much to obliterate every prejudice of this 

 kind, as English proprietors taking up the subject of agriculture, 

 and experimenting and thinking for themselves. How incom- 

 parably more rational, useful, and honourable, to be occupied, as 

 Mr. Pusey has been, in superintending experiments, and after- 

 wards giving an account of them and reasoning on them, than 

 in fox-hunting or shooting; mere relics of the occupations of 

 barbarous times, and which, with the progress of society, will 

 as completely disappear from the catalogue of gentlemanly 

 amusements, as bear-beating, badger-drawing, and the other 

 brutalities which once held place amongst them ! 



The part of the Journal now before us is by far the best that 

 has yet appeared ; containing, as it does, a number of papers, 

 scientific, experimental, and practical. We cannot help recom- 

 mending the articles on subsoil-ploughing, and on thorough- 

 draining, though the subject occupied a considerable part of the 

 preceding number. One excellent feature in this Journal is, that 

 there is not a single paper in it, nor even a foot-note, that has not 

 the authority of a real name appended. 



