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lalwnir is there employer] in cultivation. Paro-
chial farms are IlnrcroJoilly carried nu in the neigh-
bourhood of Craiihrook, in Kent, an recount of
',Web I transmitted to the Sdect Committee no
the Poor Liisisill; and if our field• were cultivated
t•i the garden style. the increased produce would
ainoly Ilefri}• the
phut iu agnt•ultuial parities, the tionr mat' he
sid‘atitygl" ("II cut,pkolyd ni the eultivtiti 111 l of the
•;1-11. aprons new to he generally rrcogritined t ;
tint the !nun which I propose solonsitting to the
ciiiisider:oioll of the Public, is of a more extrinnve
o,.•ure. The position I wiqlt to rstoblish is this,
" That 8% t e Poor in the Metropolis and iu Lige
coning lie advantageously employed iu trades
aril oilier manual occupati••ns. witlyintit injury to
MI their I Ihonr ;
hence it lon. Income id Midler of abviitute necessity,
either to u.,liutau them without employment, or to
send the ishlr-Imalled to work in the fields, both kr
raising WWI. 41111 for producing 111;otrrlokfoI114,11111
factwe (as flax), more likely to interfere *kb fn.
reign than domestic it gluon. :Ind in Which the
more Whim fair w izlit he employed in Work-
houses, rod, that by the adoption of siscli a system,
tlir Poor aill be mate-
rially
In dace•sin; this subject, it is proposed to cm:-
Soler the bilinwing 'Joints To what extent is
ntaiiiial Int applicable to the cultivation of Ihr
tool ? 2. Whitt is the prolcinle nondire of ibtr.
!tools mandaiind by the Poor Hate% in London and
its innuctlinie vicinity, who conk) be usefully em-
ployed in carrying on minor gicat agricultural
int-
pr.vrmrnt ?•—end 3. What would lir the best pl4ll
for ca•n nlp such a ntrasuie into • &et ?
%hat extent is suaiiiial labour apphcable
to the cultivation of the T

The. is a 'object that has Frequently been die-
cussed is. work. on agdcalture ; but understands
tug that Mr. Fella, an eminent toirarryitian ut
Gateshead, Oral' Nrectoetle. had reeemlo pm, par-
ticular attention to the cultivation or land by
MININOIa /abuser, I applied too hint for the result
of hi• expo-deuce, which he communicated with
*lw greatest reediewes. Hr otate•, that tio an average
it by been nserriained. that three men, and two
women or girl. (heti% about the s•roportinti of the
two mete., employed in nursery ground), taking
rif round, will work about ten statute at rem,
iu 11w proportion of about 2.1 acres for a now, and
twice for a woman. But ii it, all it..
operstiono, takes a great deal mote wink than
ground roe agsiculturel purposes. in which, he
thinks, a man mar be able to cultivate five acres
iu a year.
At the rale for digging in the oeighboorbood of
Newcastle. a mats may earn two .bolmoge per day,
mid the five New, may hr done in Sit days. The
saute Iwtiod tine will be requited fur manuring.
aowitter, and planting his crops, and 148 allyr may
be employed in boring, weeding, and other opera-
tions, making iu all 313 working days, in the year.
The whole may be dune, without any improper
degree of eaertion, by a man of medium strength.
The profits derived from spoileehumbetsdry are
certainly very considerable. By transplanting
"theist there is a great saving of seed. and the
ground brio% in perfect order, from the superior
culture it has received, Coe isicrearre is great. The
aoerage produce of wispier, in Esighowl, iv nude at
the rate of twenty boatels per acre—wit Mr.
Valle finds that trenched hind will yield store than
oloulolr. lint '• II 'Tubing the prodove to br only forty
barb: l•, at 10.. per boo 1. that would t tot
twenty pounds per Krt e, and after amply indent-
oifying every possible expeuse. would produce a
large profit. The crops of potittors. carrots, dJx,
Itemise Swedish turnips, and other articles reired by
epvi...littoolasittlry would likewise be very great. The
nee of the plough was eevosittly an immense ion-
proveseent when &et introduced ; and it must
always he apt tolicable to a very large-proportion of a
cessetry, so me to the scarcity of hands. Tlw ad-
oo gage, derived From it, however, were formerly
more ronviderable. when horses were bought Inn a
tf; Pr. curl when their pfeiellldeT was cheap; but Al lice
their twice has heroine on great, and their maintee
natter •0... iy high, it is 'videos' that the expense of
hl r r awl of mensal labour more nearly approach
pal li otla.r. To bring land into a slate for cultiva-
tion, trrtieltiog will require iwrhapit si. and even
otpwatde to r ucre ; hot to carry on its cultivation
nr..-rward. may he done, even in the netehlsonrs
hood of the metropolis., at From SO*. to 60e. per
acre; dor ploughing of which would cost from 15$.
to 20...; but °tee digging iticomidered toile equal
In two ploughings. consequently the difference of
reprove i• tad material, tebik Mr pendia, is double,
nowt us mine gores, more than one crop may be ob.
tasted to ilw same year.
There can be no doubt, therefore, that the ma-
nual labour may be advantageously employed Iu
the celtivatsoss of the soil.

'2. What is the probable number of permute main.
rained by the Poor-rateit in Loudon and its isnot,-
diate vicinity, who could he employed in currpsig
°tisane great agricultural improvements ?
This is a question that is not ea,ily solved, and
%b ids would require a good deal of investiv,ittion
accurately to am ertain but the number rnii•t he
eery great, and wheo it is convidtied that besides
able-bodied men, • large'itroportion of women, and
even somechildreu might he employed, there would
be no difficulty in finding in London and its viei.
only, from fifteen to perhaps twenty thott.istA tier-
sons who might be employed in various depart-
ments connected with the cultivation of :Lc sad,
and preparing its 11)roductioess for tt•e.
Ilesiiles mere digging, a variety of operations
might be executed by labour, as collecting
l.•tau tire, transportiong it in barges op the river, elm-
Vr) ing it to list fields un portable 11'011 roil-e ys,
transplanting the crops, liorint; and w«etlits,t them,
cutting down ur crisping thefts, thrtisliiiig by
hand-
sodls, and grinding 11. e wheat by the so

• see the Repo,t of the Fidect Conimiiire on the !Niue
Low., an 1817, Appendix 6, Nu. 2, p. 184.
lei ennui.% parishes, agrienliare fiiinisher the moat
and umful ignorer of ettiplii)ment ; fur domes the

trhol, stut•k of •I.bs wrier be ILnrby utcre•sed, yet tie. col-
et Ihr bold ottobl be Turl• Ili 1n rtilupirlisalell for ;toy
lbw •.+ut ion 1., tb• value of Isis product, by the v4,116;1.011.1-
of She expenceot maimintoing his family and
Woollens and the noir. important reduction of ate poor-
rAir "—Set the •ninable Report on the Pour Laws, 41,5.
1617, p. 19
j Are G►orral Report of Scotland. ,01. ii. p. 297, whl•rr
this• is •n effilirr SITIII6OI M. 1 re, !And the
44.de sit Agairultute, p. 151 and p..2:11, note.

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