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Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Commerce. 
Arable Lands. VIII. Grass Land. 
1X, Gardens and Orchards. X. Woods 
and Plantations. XI. Wastes. 
Tinprovements. XIII. Embankments. 
XIV. Live Stock. 
niy. 
Obstacles to Improvement, and Reme- 
dies. XVIN. Miscellaneous Articles. 
There are also six Appendixes. I. ‘Con- 
taming Tables for converting Scots to 
English measure. If. A “Table of the 
Fiars of Berwickshire for 120 years, 
from 1689 to 1808, both inclusive.” 
fT. “ Queries on Mildew, and Answers.” 
IV. “Queries on Spring Wheat, and 
Answers by the Reporter.”, V. “ Far- 
ther particulars respecting the Harbour‘ 
of Eyemouth.”” VI. “ Statistical No- 
tices of Berwickshire.” 
“county. 
The second Survey is the “ General 
View of the Agriculture of the County 
of Surrey,” by Mr. StEvENson. The 
arrangement of the chapters of which, 
with allowances for the ditference’ of 
local circumstances, is pretty nearly the 
same. Prefixed is a map of the soil of 
Surrey; and, at the close, the following’ 
remarks on the county 1n general. 
“The prospect of the improvement of 
the agriculture of Surrey, 1s m one point 
of view extremely favourable, while’ in 
another point of view it is not so flatter- 
ing: the prejudives that were formerly 
entertained against the introduction, first, 
of the South Down sheep, and. after- 
wards of the Merino, are fast wearing 
away: indeed, the prejudice against the 
former may be said to have yielded en- 
tirely to an experimental conviction of 
. their superior profit and advantaves: yet 
it is not very long since the South Down 
were regarded as unsuitable forthe Surrey’ 
hills: a few years will probably remove 
entirely the prejudice against the Meri- 
ho slicep. Yet while the Surrey farniers 
are introducing ‘the stock of other dis - 
tricts, they seeinaverse to adopt the in- 
plemeuts and arable practices even of 
those counties, which they acknowledge 
ave beforehatid with them ia these re- 
spects: and they make use of the same 
arguments that were formerly advanced 
awainst a change in the breed and 
management of stock; that though such 
things might do very well in other dis- 
fricts, ‘yet they would not answer im 
Surrey. * At first sight, wesshould expect 
that. such farmers as were willing to 
change their system in ore point, would 
not be very averse to a change in ano- 
XIT.- 
XV. Rural Econo-- 
XVI. Political Economy. XVI. 
Prefixed 1s, of 
course, an agricultural map of the 
663 
ther; and yet it certainly is the case, 
not merely in Surrey, but in many other. 
parts of the kingdom, that while the 
stock has been improving, and while the 
farmers have been zealous in favouring 
and adopting these improvements, in the 
very same districts the arable husbandry 
has remained nearly unchanged for a 
number of years, and the farmers lend a 
prejudiced ear to any altcration Wice 
“As, however, the Surrey farmers are~ 
now beginning to see the yood effects re-_ 
sulting from a change in the system of 
cropping their ground, ‘and to be con- 
vinced that the alteration of green and 
white crops ought to be a fundamental 
rule in farming, we may hope, that in 
the course of a iew years, the more. en- 
lightened and spirited of them will intro- 
duce all the improvements in the arable 
husbandry of the best cultivated districts, 
with the same zeal and perseverance 
with which they have adopted and‘ en- 
couraged the improvements in’ stock, 
and in the general system of cropping 
their land.” <a) 
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