Farming of Lancashire. 



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certain simple conditions ; the}' are read with great willingness,, 

 not to say avidity, and the success of these first steps affords 

 encouragement to further progress in this most desirable direction. 



The farm-labourers of this county are as well off, and perhaps 

 better than in any other part of the kingdom, except where 

 manufactures are found, as in Yorkshire, Sec, and their cottages 

 for the most part comfortable and substantial. Fuel is cheap 

 everywhere, whether it be coals or turf, and an able-bodied man 

 can earn 12s. or 13s. per week in any district. Mr. Patterson, of 

 Holbeck, gives his men 7s. a week and their meat in the house, 

 and Mr. Wilson, of Newton Park, has some in the house alto- 

 gether ; but this is not a good system, nor does it generally pre- 

 vail. As a class, I should say they were better housed, better 

 fed, better warmed, and better paid than in many parts of Eng- 

 land where agricultural occupations are their only employment. 



The section of a " Corn-Mow." 



February 28, 1849. 



To Mr. Garnett. 



My dear Sir, — I regret that I was from home when you called here on 

 the subject of your Report of the Farming of Lancashire ; but I now send 

 you the particulars of the process of working the field you saw in turnips 

 last week — a process which several years' experience induces me to re- 

 commend as the best and quickest mode of bringing heavy, worn-out land 

 into good play. 



The field consisted of many small fields which I laid together, as my 

 landlord desired. 



Having all been for several years overcropped, under-manured, and short 



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