Warping. 
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money  to  raise  an  entirely  new  farmstead,  a man  with  3,000/.  set 
apart  for  the  purpose,  might  well  be  uncertain  what  plan  to 
adopt.  Notwithstanding  the  really  excellent  plans  of  farm- 
buildings  we  have  recently  published,  for  one  I certainly  should 
be  puzzled  ; because  farm-steadings,  like  certain  countries,  are 
really  in  a state  of  revolution.  Our  old  ideas  about  them 
are  unsettled,  our  new  ones  undetermined.  Their  form  must 
depend  on  the  management  of  stock,  and  the  management  of  stock 
partly  on  the  management  of  manure,  which  last  is  become  the 
most  intricate  of  all  points  in  husbandry.  Manure,  however,  be- 
longs to  the  practice  of  farming.  We  may  here  close,  then,  the 
list  of  improvements  which  it  is  in  the  landlord’s  power  to  effect. 
We  must  add,  indeed — 
§ 12.  Warping. 
But  though  an  admirable  operation,  still,  as  it  is  confined  to  two 
rivers,  the  Ouse  and  the  Trent,  it  is  not  of  general  practical  in- 
terest, and  having  been  often  described  in  this  Journal,  will  not 
require  our  attention.  Landlords’  improvements  stand  then  under 
the  following  heads  : — 
1. 
2, 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
Draining 
Removing 
Game. 
1.  Trunk  draining. 
.2.  Under  draining. 
1.  Fences. 
2.  Trees. 
Burning  Clay  . 
Claying^  . 
Liming  Grass-land. 
Boning  Grass-land. 
Chalking. 
Catch-meadows  . 
1.  Border-burning. 
2.  Clod-burning. 
1.  Sands. 
2.  Peat. 
1.  Hill-side. 
2.  Flat. 
3.  Flood. 
Breaking  up  Pasture. 
Farm  Buildings. 
Warping. 
Our  means  of  improvement  are  certainly  manifold.  I have 
been  anxious  to  prove  them  so  in  these  times  of  difficulty,  because 
in  agriculture,  as  in  medicine,  there  is  a tendency  to  dwell 
exclusively  on  some  particular  remedy.  The  quack,  indeed, 
has  of  course  only  one  nostrum  ; but  even  regular  physicians 
have  a leaning  sometimes  to  favourite  drugs.  Variety  of  treat- 
ment, however,  is  the  true  test  of  ripe  art.  They  are  not  arrayed 
as  if  English  landlords  were  slow  in  adopting  admitted  improve- 
ments upon  their  properties,  for  such  is  certainly  not  the  case 
now  ; but  landlords  do  require  that  the  variety  of  their  resources  be 
brought  under  their  eye  : they  will  find  in  almost  all  these  practices 
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