. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. capital to improve his farm himself, givinghim at least twenty years to reap the benefits, so that n Inn In- goes out he may carry the profits of hisimprovements with him, and not take their supposed value out of the pocket of his successor. To givebetter diet to the really helpless of the poor in the workhouses, and sufficient out-door relief to th
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. capital to improve his farm himself, givinghim at least twenty years to reap the benefits, so that n Inn In- goes out he may carry the profits of hisimprovements with him, and not take their supposed value out of the pocket of his successor. To givebetter diet to the really helpless of the poor in the workhouses, and sufficient out-door relief to the agedwho may desire to remain in the home of their affections. To send all able-bodied labourers who arewilling to work and cannot find employment, to the cultivation of the crown lands, or other estates thatmaybe procured and used for the purpose of agricultural schools ; but never to send them to breakstone:;or grind bones in a workhouse, as a punishment. To put an end to all poaching and poachers, by puttingan end to all game and game-laws, ami giving gamekeepers a more useful employment. These are a lew of the remedies for the present condition of the farm labourers. They are hastily supplement. STATISTICS OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE. 1J()9. thrown together. Some of them are, of necessity, remote; others I believe to be near at hand ; all ofthem, I believe, must be adopted and carried out before the deplorable state of agricultural Englandalters from what it is. (One who has whistled at the Plough in Morn. Chron., June 24th, 1843.) 8495—7784. 11. The application of steam to machinery for raising the water from fen and luiv have mentioned (§ 7786.), that steam had been employed for this purpose in Cambridgeshire ; andwe have since learned from the account of a trial in the newspapers (see Times for July, 1834), that a gasengine has also been so employed in the Cambridge fens. We are now enabled, through the kindness ofMr. C. H. Capper, engine-maker. Union Foundery,
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