“2nd. The implements of husbandry employed, with the defects and advantages of each, and suggestions for the introduction of new ones, that may be more effectual.
“3rd. The manure employed for the soil, especially the means used for irrigation.
“4th. The means used for excluding floods and inundations, with such remarks, as may occur to you, on the defects in their management, and the remedies that might be employed.
“5th. The different breeds of the cattle, poultry, and other domestic animals reared by the natives. The manner in which they are bred and kept; the profits derived from rearing and maintaining them; the kinds used in labour; whether the produce of the country be sufficient, without importation, to answer the demand, or to enable the farmer to export; and whether any kinds not now reared might be advantageously introduced.
“6th. Fences, the various kinds, that are used, or that might be introduced, with observations concerning the utility of this part of agriculture in the present state of the country.
“7th. The state of farms; their usual size, the stock required, with the manner in which it is procured; the expense of management; the rent, whether paid in specie, or in kind; the wages and condition of farming servants and labourers employed in husbandry; tenures by which farms are held, with their comparative advantages, and the means which, in your opinion, may be employed to extend and improve the cultivation of the country.
“8th. The state of the landed property, and of the tenures by which it is held, in so far as these seem to affect agriculture.
“VI. The progress made by the natives in the fine arts, in the common arts, and the state of the manufactures; you will describe their architecture, sculptures, and paintings, and inquire into the different processes and machinery used by their workmen, and procure an account of the various kinds and amount of goods manufactured in each district. It should also be an object of your attention to ascertain the ability of the country to produce the raw materials used in them; and what proportion, if any, is necessary to be imported from other countries, and under what advantages, or disadvantages, such importation now is, or might be made; you will also ascertain how the necessary capital is procured, the situation of the artists and manufactures, the mode of providing their goods, the usual rates of their labour; any particular advantages they may enjoy, their comparative affluence with respect to the cultivators of the land, their domestic usages, the nature of their
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