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upon to report its projjrcss, its agriculture ma}' be found to have 
kept pace witli the improvements going on around us in every 
branch of manufacture and commerce. 
In bringing our rej)ort to a close, we venture to remind the 
reader that it has been our task to describe, not ^ orkshue farm- 
ing generallv, but that more limited field, our modern improve- 
ments ; and if in its execution we have failed to give minute 
particulars, this has been an almost necessary consequence of the 
rule laid down at the commencement of the paper for avoiding 
jjartial reference eitiier to landlord or tenant. We have the satis- 
faction of feeling that the pleasure which the subject has afforded 
has been greater than the labour expended on it, for we can 
dwell with delight upon improvement in any form, but espe- 
cially in one so congenial to our own tiiste as the advancement 
of agriculture. 
Sigghsthorne Hall. 
VI. — Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat fur Consumption 
in the Metropolis. By Robert Herbert. 
During the first six months of the present year the Metropolitan 
Cattle Market has been well supplied with beasts, which, with 
very few exceptions, were in excellent condition ; indeed, as 
regards quality, the arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and 
Scotland have never been excelled in any former corresponding 
period. Considering the inferior condition in which the hay 
crop was secured last year, and the moderate growth of other 
cattle-food, this is a highly important result. It shows that our 
graziers have shown great energy and skill in the production of 
food, even under the most disadvantageous circumstances ; and 
that, whate^er predictions may gain currency to the contrary, 
prices cannot range above a certain level for any lengthened 
period whilst capital can be found to meet the demands of the 
consumers of any kind of food. And here we may remark that 
much misapprehension has from time to time prevailed in refer- 
ence to the number of fat and store animals in this country. In 
1860, owing to the falling off in the condition of the beasts dis- 
posed of, and the unusually high rates demanded by the breeders, 
it was apprehended that our deficiency was such that it would 
be found necessary to import large numbers of stock from the 
Continent, whatever might be their condition, to meet our future 
consumption. The apprehended deficiency, however, has not 
had the effect of increasing our importations to anv extent ; and 
