. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTR Y LIFE. 261 Sciara Fucata. Sea Bream. network, up which they may run, with twine or small cord. SCIARA FUCATA. A genus of flics called ^lolobrus, that live on decaying vegetables. SaOPUIiA FORFICALIS. T^lie garden Pchl)le Moth. It feeds on cabbages and horse-radish. SCOTTISH AGBICUIiTTJHE. The agricultural progress that has characterized so pre-emi
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTR Y LIFE. 261 Sciara Fucata. Sea Bream. network, up which they may run, with twine or small cord. SCIARA FUCATA. A genus of flics called ^lolobrus, that live on decaying vegetables. SaOPUIiA FORFICALIS. T^lie garden Pchl)le Moth. It feeds on cabbages and horse-radish. SCOTTISH AGBICUIiTTJHE. The agricultural progress that has characterized so pre-eminently tlie nineteenth century had somewhat earlier developed in Scotland than in England. The importance of under- ground draining became understood in the Northern kingdom fii-st, and, owing to the superior educational ad- vantages enjoyed north of the until within a recent period, the rural mind was more prepared to accept innovations on old practices, and to receive scientific teachings and the reasonings of enlightened theorists. The grand circumstance, however, which has in past times contributed more than anything to place Scottish agriculture in advance, is the system of tenure, upholding as it does, in a general point of view, long leases, reciprocal relation: between landlord and tenants, and com rents. The development of good farming has, however, during the past thirty j-ears made such astounding advance- ment in the Southern kingdom, that it may be now pronounced pretty much on a par, in regard to general excel- lence, with that of the Northern. .Scotch farm labourers are perhaps still the best in the world; and, as a Scotch bailiflf is at the present day tolerably sure to be preferred to an English one, we may take it for granted that, so far as the actual management of the labour department of the farm is concerned, Scotland's sons may claim an advantage. But even the far-famed East Lothian farming may now-a-days find its match in many districts southward,
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