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in jvgriiultiiral pursuits; and on tlie Saturday prrcodlnji;- no loss 
than 2209/. was paid into the savings-bank bj town and country 
depositors. 
One exception only to this satisfactory picture is to be found 
in the case of the vouui? unmarried farm-servants, who are often 
much nejjlected, and not unfrofpiently lose the good they obtained 
at school, from want of enrouragement from their masters. An 
endeavour is made to palliate this evil in some districts by the 
establishment of evening schools and book societies, but the 
migratory disposition inherent in this class often does away with 
the benefit; what is gained in one place being lost in another. 
A small but not unimportant improvement has been made in 
the farmers' garden. Whilst collecting materials for this report 
we were much pleased at finding well-cultivated gardens beside 
well-cultivated farms, and, while the useful prevailed over the 
ornamental, the latter was not neglected. A few flowers well 
cared for by the farmer's wife or (laughters added considerably 
to the beauty of the scene, and from repeated observation we 
think it will be found that a good farm and good garden go 
hand in hand. 
• For the county of York, Leeds and Hull are the chief marts 
for those important articles of farm consumption — rape-seed and 
linseed cake ; the increased demand for these articles thiougli- 
X)\\t the country, and especially within this county, strongly indi- 
cates the progress of agriculture. The import of linseed into 
Hull from foreign parts in 1848 Avas 337,361 qrs., and, in 1860, 
529,900 (p's., showing an increase of 192,539 qrs. in twelve years, 
exclusive of what is imported coastwise or overland from 
Liverpool, which last year amounted to upwards of 33,935 qrs., 
making a total of 563,835 qrs. Surely this increase shows that 
the farmer cannot be fairlv taxed with want of spirit. The 
annual imports of rapeseed into Hull and Liverpool have advanced 
in the same proportion. The linseed-cakes are consumed at 
home, and, though a considerable quantity of foreign cake is 
imported, we find no variation in the supply. Though rape-cake 
is employed for feeding cattle, by far the greater quantity is used 
as manure, being broken up to about the size of a rmt and strewn 
on the land preparing for wheat. It is chiefly used in the neigh- 
bourhoods of York, Tadcaster, Wetherby, Pontefract, and 
Doncaster. 
If it be asked why has the price of beef and mutton risen, 
if the farmer has done his part to supply the market, we 
answer that the grazier has had to contend against events be- 
yond humfm control. The unusual severity of the winter of 
1859 and 1860, and the heavy rains throughout the past year, 
have been much against them, causing great losses from disease : 
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