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PKACTICAL AGEICULTURE. 
CHAPTER I. 
Physical and Statistical. 
lORTCULTURAL England — from the warm hop and fruit grounds Introduction 
f Kent and the dry chalk Downs of Sussex to the bleak 
lorthern Cheviots and the stormy fells of Cumberland ; from 
he rich wheat and root lands of East Yorkshire to the moors of 
he West Riding and the mosses of Lancashire ; from the fat 
larsh lands and high-cultured wold and heath farms of Lincoln- 
hire to the mountain ranges of Carnarvon ; from the arid barley 
inds of East Anglia and the corn-growing clays of Essex to 
he moist uplands and lofty sheepwalks of South Wales ; from 
he hay meadows of Middlesex and the sands of Surrey to 
le sheep-clad hills of Dorset, the rank pastures of Somerset, 
nd the corn and dairy farms, mild garden grounds, apple- 
rchards, and granite wilds of Devon and Cornwall — who 
liall adequately portray its arable and pastoral husbandry 
1 the pages of a brief memoir ? All that any writer can Outline of 
ope to accomplish is inadequately to picture English farms subjects 
nd homesteads of hill and vale — ^whether occupations held by 
ipital or wrought by the labour of small cultivators, under the 
ry climate of the east, the humid atmosphere of the west, the 
liill north, or the more genial south — to describe very briefly 
le varied systems of cultivation upon loams and sands and clays ; 
le adaptation of crops and management to different soils and 
limates, and to the demand of great cities for special products ; 
iversities of practice in tillage, manuring, harvesting, food- 
icparing, as conducted by the most eminent managers ; and 
le breeding, rearing, and fattening of live-stock upon the richly 
'iltivated plains, in the mid-regions between the lowlands and 
plands, and on the unsheltered heights of moorland and moun- 
in. He may relate only in short sketches how arable and 
isture are reclaimed from barren wilds, water-laden bogs, and 
•lal estuaries ; how steam-power and mechanical inventions 
^ve remodelled old methods of husbandrv ; how manufactured 
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