Date: 1851
As to making such reports more amusing, I think it should be done by giving, first, an historical view of the former state of agricul ture, ahowing when improvements were in troduced; thus, taking Suffolk for instance, the works that would teU ua of the former state are old Tusser, time of Elizabeth ; ex tracts from Camden's Britannia, James 1st; from Fuller's Worthiea of England and Hart- Ub's Legacy, about 1660 ; and, when we come a hundred years later, Young's Eastern and i-*outhern Tour; his Course of Experimental Agriculture, where he describes aU Suffolk ™5 \e^e^u> !770, and gives the price; his buttolk Report, 1793-1804; extracts from his Annals of Agriculture, &c. It is rather curious that our two great agri cultural poets, Tusser, who wrote his "500 Points of Good Husbandry," about 1600, and Bloomfield, who wrote his "Farmer's Boy" 200 years later, should have taken their ideas from Suffolk husbandry, the firat being actu ally a Suffolk farmer, the other a native of Suffolk.  Second, the biography of celebrated agricul turiata or agricultural machine makera may also be made very interesting.  In Suffolk, for instance, among the former, we have Tuaaer and Arthur Young, among the latter Messrs. Ransome and Garrett.