IS] AG R .part, however, may be carried on, independently of scientific experi- ment'. No person, therefore, need be deterred from attempting any improvements, because he is not conversant with the more abstract; parts of physical know];-:' art is also eminently useful, be it furnishes us, to a consid degree, with the means of com- merce; for the quantity of corn which we do not want icr our own use and consumption, may always find a ready market,, if exported to ©ther eoun . The flourishing state of our ma- nufactures is greatly dependent on that of our agriculture; because the. price of those commodities obtained by labour, is not only closely con- nected with that of the nece of life, but some of the most consi- derable articles of manufactures are originally- supplied by agricultural productions, such as wool, flax, hemp. . :d, tallow. The successful advancement of the rural art depends upon two cir- cum.datices; the one, its improve- ment by discovery or invention] the other, a more extemhe practice of such improvements, when fully inomtrated. The former is eft. by the c ntrh ance of move pi machines and implemeius of hus- bandry, winch facilitate tha progress of labour; the introduction of new articles of profitable culture, and the roost . ■iig those which lira. been cultivated, though in a d live manner. r ihe latter the practice, relates not <...' tare improvements, but likewise to tho=e which, though gen known, have been either wholly ted only in parti- cular places. Various plans have lately been AG R devised for the purpose of encou- raging agriculture ; such as the in- closure of waste lands, the draining of fens and morasses, the construc- land canals, &c, On the & of inclosures, Dr. Darwin
- ' There can certainly be no
.ion to the iuclosure of com- er at least to their division into private property, as they are believed] to produce more than tenfold the quantity of sustenance to mankind; if they arc employed in agriculture, or even in pasturage, than by nou- rishing a few geese, sheep, or deer, in their uncultivated state, covered with fern, heath, or gorse." To conclude: agricultural pur- suits will always constitute one of the principal employments of the bulk of mankind; it is, therefore, as well the interest, as the duty, of the higher classes, to contribute • in their power, to- wards alles iating the burthens inse- parable from die lot of the husband- man. For, so long as that vak of the people, who cultivate ..ere duly stimulated tr» habits of industry, and encouraged in (hi of domestic virtuesj we rind no example in the pa modern history, that such . n eversul I cala- "YV'e do not, . here allude to ; - period of may be either real or artificial, and the < which . t pretend to investigate. But, on the whole, there can be no landry .. ed in this , toge- ther with the praise-wdrthj exer- jie Board of Agriculture, ■ •ties instil ultimately ion, We should con- ii lent in gratitude and
