126 Recovery of Worthless Pasture Land. 



patriotic enough to take charge of the Agricultural 

 Department, and with enough energy and moral courage 

 to compel the attention of the House of Commons to the 

 requirements of British agriculture. 



One word more. Any statesman can see for himself, 

 by visiting Clifton-on-Bowmont, how great tracts of 

 land now abandoned to pasture of a most worthless 

 kind can be brought again under profitable cultivation 

 with the aid of the system I have initiated ; and how, 

 therefore, the further abandonment of arable, with its 

 consequent decline of our rural population, may be 

 arrested. The more this subject is studied, the more 

 clear does it become that the worst enemy of the rural 

 population has been the British Government, and it will 

 continue to be so until it follows the methods 'for the 

 advancement of agriculture which have been adopted by 

 all civilized Governments. 



