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manuring at a cost of from £10. to £18. to the
| Any leases, and for how many years? | Not any that I know of. |
| Any covenants?—and what? | None. |
| Largest value per acre for any one crop? | £50 to £60. [see note 2] |
| Average do.? | £20 some years, but not the last five or six years.[see note 3] |
| Largest quantity of manure per acre you ever knew applied to an acre? | 60 loads. |
| What is the average of owners of the small lot to occupiers? | Not 1 owner in 20 tenants. |
note 2: At present perhaps £60 may be the largest; but not very long ago, I have heard of £120 worth of onion seed per acre.
note 3: The causes of the falling off in the value of garden produce are— 1. The potato disease. 2. The greatly increased area now under cultivation for this particular produce. 3. The great increase in the number of railways radiating from the metropolis. "Every fresh Railway opens out a new field for the supply and what is still more disadvantageous, creates a fresh demand for manure, thereby decreasing, or tending to lessen, the price of the produce, and increasing (or tending to increase), the price of manure. Without London manure, the whole system is impossible."It will be observed, that in this case, "la petite culture" is entirely dependent upon the manure brought down by rail, that proximity to a railway station on a line communicating with a large town, is almost as advantageous as proximity to the town itself, and that the extension of railways, and of the advantages they confer, has a tendency to diminish the profits of this system of agriculture in particular localities, and to
