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" May, and remain out in the pastures day and night from 
" May to the end of October ; so that in fact the farmer has 
" only the manure made during winter ; yet this is sufficient, 
" and sometimes more than sufficient, for his wants, and his 
" lands are constantly in the best order." 
If, then, agriculture is to increase in prosperity, (and by 
prosperity we mean increased production without proportional 
expense in producing,) it will be by the adoption of some of 
the suggestions mentioned in the report. For by what mean 
has the rapid improvement and extension of the agriculture 
of Great Britain, since the year 1760, (only 80 years ago,) 
been made, so as to provide food for the increase of 10,000,000 
of population, and be able to add, by its progress in that 
period, the enormous sum of £80,000,000 a-year to the free 
disposable income of the country ? This rapid advance- 
ment, which is unprecedented in the history of wealth and 
civilization, was begun only so lately as the reigns of 
George I. and George II., by the culture of the turnip as a 
field crop by Lord Townshend and others ; by the improve- 
ments in stock husbandry, and in the breeding and fattening 
of cattle, — and these not until the time of Bakewell of 
Dishley, and Culley of Northumberland. Within the last 
twenty-five years the quantity of wheat grown on the Wold 
district of Yorkshire described, and conveyed along the 
Driffield canal,* has been just doubled, that of flour 
increased four-fold, and the cultivation of oats been replaced 
by that of barley. On the other side of the Humber, the 
* Quantity of produce conveyed along the Driffield canal : — 
In 1819, Wheat conveyed, 8,000 Qrs. and 8,000 Sacks of Flour. 
1838, „ 15,000 „ 32,000 
The quantity of wheat about doubled, and that of flour increased four-fold. 
In 1819, Oats conveyed, ... 20,000 Quarters. 
1838, „ 5,200 
1819, Barley, „ 5,000 
1838 „ 20,000 
The cultivation of oats being just replaced by that of barley. 
