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frequently in the scientific researches of chemistry, geology, 
botany, »S:c. In this way we trust to see improvements still 
further carried on, each age profiting by the experience of its 
predecessor. 
In the present day there is no indisposition to adopt any new 
discovery ; it is eagerly sought- after, but in too many instances as 
soon laid aside without adequate trial ; one partial failure, owing 
to peculiarity of soil or season, telling unfairly against the new 
manure or implement. In this way we have seen the horse-hoe, 
the turnip-pulper, and other useful implements thrown aside, 
and the most valuable manures regarded as worthless ; the 
growing of the white Silesian sugar beetroot for distilling, and 
the erection of costly apparatus, now abandoned, may serve as 
example. 
One new feature of our time is the number of farms held by 
men who have had a mercantile education, who bring their com- 
mercial ideas to bear on agriculture ; these are generally intelli- 
gent men, full of energy and enterprise, not afraid of investing 
their capital in a grateful soil, who therefore occupy the foremost 
rank in carrying out hopeful experiments and improvements ; 
the same remark applies to the manufacturer where his tastes 
lead him to turn farmer. 
Another class of farmers must not be overlooked, though now 
diminished in numbers and importance ; we refer to the yeomanry 
of England, properly so named,- — -men who farmed their own land, 
varying from 100 to 200 acres in extent. Whether from the 
want of sufficient capital, from an attachment to old ways, or 
mere supineness, this class has generally been behind the times, 
and thus it often happens that on the decease of the owner his 
small estate is put up to auction (his children leaving the old 
home to seek more profitable employment elsewhere), and the 
land which had been the pride of their forefathers is enrolled 
among the broad acres of some larger owner. 
A decided improvement may be noticed in our village 
schools. Schoolrooms have been enlarged or rebuilt by the 
aid of the National Board, and the old incompetent master 
replaced by a trained and certificated one, the clergy rendering 
their best assistance to the work. The length of this article 
prevents our enlarging on this subject, and showing by statis- 
tical reports the unmistakable social and moral advance among 
the working classes, evidenced in part by a diminution of crime, 
vagrancy, and pauperism. 
On Tuesday the 4th of last December, 1513/. was paid into 
the Hull Ijank for savings in sums varying from Is. to 30Z. ; a 
large proportion of this sum was received from persons employed 
