The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . sition of thisquestion—so far from being an independant subjectfor consideration, it is but one of the manj- whicharise on a comprehensive consideration of the properend and object of agriculture. Let us now return to a continuation of our lastweeks remarks on the bearing which the statisticalstatement of South Gloucestershire farming, pub-lished at page 195, has on this subject. SAe lastweek referred particularly to the way in which thesetables, collated by M. S., illustrate the interest ofthe labourer in the matter. There are still one or t
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . sition of thisquestion—so far from being an independant subjectfor consideration, it is but one of the manj- whicharise on a comprehensive consideration of the properend and object of agriculture. Let us now return to a continuation of our lastweeks remarks on the bearing which the statisticalstatement of South Gloucestershire farming, pub-lished at page 195, has on this subject. SAe lastweek referred particularly to the way in which thesetables, collated by M. S., illustrate the interest ofthe labourer in the matter. There are still one or two points connected withthis aspect of the subject to which we must allude;and it may therefore be well, in illustration of them,to republish the diagram printed at page 261, inexplanation of the relations which obtain, in theseveral districts of South Gloucestershire, amongstthe proportion of each which is ploughed, the grossproduce of the land, the rental of it, the profit whichthe farmer derives from it, and the amount of labourspent upon It is unnecessary to repeat here what was said atpage 2ol in explanation of this diagram ; those whohave not been accustomed to see exhibited, bymeans of curved lines, the relations to one anotherof circumstances varying either according to placeor time, will easily understand the matter by refer-ence to last w-ceks remarks. The form of any ofthese curved lines—its variable height above thebase line (A B)—expresses the relations of theseveral districts, whose columns it traverses, to thesubject to which it refers. Thus, No. 1 is a lineexpressive of the quantity of ploughed land in thevarious districts of South Gloucestershire ; andNo. 4 signifies the amount per acre spent on labourin these districts. Now, it may appear that were the assertion thatall classes would benefit b\ the breaking up of ourpermanent pastures true, then the curves expressingthe interest which the difterent classes have in thematter—curves Nos. 4, 5, and 6
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