588 Successful Industry of a Labourer. 
with a dwelling-house and buildings; the following year 22 acres more; 
and he has recently added another 24 acres to his occupation : making 
in all 93 acres, the 4 acres belonging to the parish having been taken 
from him when he hired the other land. 
In order to stock these different parcels of land, he was of course 
under the necessity of borrowing money ; but by industry and good 
management he has been enabled to pay it off, and is now free of the 
world. To make his history still more remarkable, he has brought up 
a family oi fourteen children, and buried two others. 
The circumstances of the case, as I heard them related, appeared to 
me so extraordinary that I was induced to go over to Carlton to see the 
land, and to inquire into the system pursued with such admirable 
results. I found that Chancy has two sons grown up and married, who 
work for him as day-labourers ; and three sons unmarried, who also 
work for him. In addition, he sometimes employs two or three other 
hands. He has five working horses, besides a brood mare and foal ; 
nine breeding sows, and a boar ; five milch cows, and nine young cattle 
of different ages. I did not see any sheep. I could not find that he 
adopts any regular system of cropping, but the appearance of his crops 
bore testimony to the high condition of the land, though originally, I 
was informed, of inferior quality. The great secret of his good manage- 
ment and extraordinary success seems to be in a very liberal application 
of manure and of labour to improving the soil. He told me that he 
never sells any barley, peas, or beans, but devotes his whole growth of 
these to the feeding of stock, chiefly hogs, of which he fattens a great 
number. The particulars of this case are so extraordinary that I should 
scarcely have given credit to them had I not verified them on the spot. 
They appear to me to furnish a proof as remarkable as it is delightful 
of the benefit of high farming. 
Rent of the 24 acres originally taken . . 20s. per acre. 
Ditto, afterwards raised to . . . 225. and 24^. „ 
Rent of land subsequently taken .... 405. „ 
East Leigh, Emsworth, June 1 0, 1 843. 
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