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Agriculture of Nottinghamshire. 
about three inches apart, which rise or fall with the inequalities 
of the ground. 1 1 is drawn by a horse, and can be emptied of its 
contents, without any interruption to the work, by a crank which 
raises the whole of the teeth at the same time, and so allows the 
contents to fall. 
Waggons and carts are both in general use throughout the 
county. Some, nevertheless, who have tried the one-horse cart 
exclusively approve of it, as containing every requisite, and are 
prepared to cast aside, in consequence, their other carriages. We 
feel ccmvlnced that experience will disabuse the minds of many of 
the notion that one-horse carts are of themselves insufficient for 
every purpose upon the farm ; and had not the Royal Agricultural 
Society offered a prize for the best essay on their advantages, 
which will therefore render unnecessary any remarks of ours, we 
should proceed to give our reasons, founded on experience, for 
thus recommending them in preference to any other kind of 
carriage, not only under particular circumstances, but under all 
ordinary circumstances in which they are required. 
Allotments to Cottagers. 
Much has been said of late years both for and against the ex- 
pediency of allotting land to the poor. As we cannot but con- 
sider it a question calculated materially to affect the comfort of 
that class for whose benefit the allotments have been in most cases 
granted, we have made it a subject of inquiry in different parts of 
the county, as far as our means would admit, and the result of 
such inquiry has been decidedly in favour of the system. We 
cannot but regard it as one adapted not only to improve the 
condition of the poor themselves, but also, by a diminution of 
pauperism, to relieve the classes above them, who contribute 
chiefly to their support ; nor does it, as has been asserted, render 
the labourer careless of or indiffeient to his employer. 
If there be, in a highly refined and luxurious country like our 
own, one sight more painful than another, it is to see the honest 
labourer asking from door to door " for leave to toil," that he 
may thereby get bread, but asking in vain. And why does he 
ask in vain ? Is it because he asks of men not capable of feeling 
for their fellows? We answer, No; but too often because he who 
would willingly be the employer is in as hard straits as he who 
craves to be the employed. This is no imaginary case, but an 
undeniable fact, the constant recurrence of which, under our own 
eyes, has induced us to allude to it. Can we wonder at men, 
born with the feelings of Englishmen, thus disappointed, turning 
droopingly and despondingly away, inwardly feeling that " no 
man careth for them," and that our very cattle are regarded more 
than they? Surely this is not a question to be viewed merely 
