The Farming of Westmorland. 
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generation would benefit by more knowledge of those subjects 
than that possessed by their forefathers ; and that they should be 
able to keep their accounts and conduct farming aflairs on sys- 
tematic rules and business princi{)les. 
2. Better fn rm-houses and accommodation for stock, and 
arrangements for preventing waste of manure. 
3. There is yet ample scope for further thorough drainage, 
reclamation, and planting. 
4. It is aljsolutcly necessary that enterprising and deserving 
tenants should have better security and encouragement for in- 
vesting capital in the land, and developing the latent energies of 
the soil. 
5. The inclosure or stinting of the remaining commons, so as 
to secure more equitable and peaceful enjoyment of rights, to 
prevent overstocking, and so improve the breeds of sheep and 
quality of wool. 
Improvements might bo made by lowering and regulating the 
levels of some of the lakes, at the heads and around the margins 
of which A'aluable meadows might be made of lands now mere 
swamps, and floods might be prevented. 
The extensive tracts of now unproductive moss lands in 
Foulshaw and Witherslack invite skill and capital for their re- 
clamation. 
Swampy tracts, such as Kentmere Tarn Meadov/s, Sandford 
Mire, &c., should be drained by co-operation of the different 
owners. 
No class of persons receives so much lecturing and advice 
as farmers, and in reckoning up their shortcomings too little 
allowance is made for many difficulties with which they have to 
contend, such as farms unduly weighted by high rents (whether 
caused by too keen competition or too exacting landlords), 
insufficient capital, inevitable losses by a series of ungenial 
seasons, against which all human exertion is powerless. As 
regards the Westmorland farmer in particulai-, of none can it be 
more truly said, that he " rises early, late takes rest, and eats the 
bread of carefulness." No great improvement can be accom- 
plished without the hearty co-operation of both landlord and 
tenant. Self-interest may be the mainspring in all human 
actions, but here, rightly applied, it does not clash, but har- 
monizes with the eternal principles of right and mutual duty, 
and both parties have a noble work to do in keeping and dressing 
the garden of Mother Earth, the work set out and appointed by 
the great Creator. 
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