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to the best means of improving the soil. To the landlord I have 
not hesitated to point out the duties which are peculiarly his, in 
effecting the desired results to which all agricultural operations 
should tend. He will have seen that his first business will be so 
to modify the conditions and to extend the term of his tenant's 
lease, as at once to prevent the pernicious practice of growing two 
successive white crops, and to induce the tenant by the most 
powerful of motives — self-interest — to exert his utmost skill, and 
willingly employ his capital in the cultivation of the soil intrusted 
to his care. The successful course of permanent improvements 
in farming can obviously only be maintained by practically con- 
vincing the farmer that he will not fail to participate in the results 
of his well-directed labours. Having, b\' a judicious and liberal 
mode of letting his land, implanted this encouraging feeling in the 
mind of the tenant, the good landlord will next see to the im- 
provement of the farm-yards and buildings. In urging the ne- 
cessity of so doing, I would guard myself against being consi- 
dered an advocate of anything approaching to excessive expendi- 
ture. I am solely desirous of seeing such a judicious outlay as 
will enable the farmer to carry on his business in the most econo- 
mical manner — a matter of vital importance to himself, and ob- 
viously tending to give a feeling of satisfaction and confidence 
to his landlord. To the tenant I would say, — avail yourself of 
those opportunities which the increasing intelligence of the age 
offers to all, remembering that, unless you advance with the spirit 
of progress, by which those around you, in your own and other 
professions, are directed, you must necessarily go backwards. Cast- 
ing off the bonds of prejudice and of self-satisfaction, be willing to 
learn, and to adapt your system of farming to the improved modes 
of agricultural economy which are based on the union of science 
and practice. There are not wanting encouragements to you, im- 
mediately around and about you. Look to the triumphant results 
of combined intelligence and experience in the working of our 
Cornish mines, of the superiority of which Cornish men may right- 
fully boast against every other mining district in the world. May 
we not, then, hope for somewhat corresponding results if Cornish 
intellect and Cornish energy be applied to our agriculture as 
they have been applied to the extraction of our hidden mineral 
wealth ? I confess I am sanguine in the expectation that such 
a realization of our best wishes will, ere many years, be effected ; 
for I know well the industry and intelligence of our Cornish 
farmers — their plain practical sound sense — their frugal and pru- 
dent habits — and the anxious desire which is now manifesting 
itself among them for all kinds of useful information. May I, 
in conclusion, presume to hope, that my own humble exertions in 
combining and collating amass of information from various sources 
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