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ALDEKMAN MECHl's MARGIN. 13 tested this by comparative results, and
find that, if all the land of this kingdom, 50,000,000 acres, which
is equal in quality with my own, produced as much as mine does per
acre, our agricultural produce would be increased by the enormous
amount of 421,000,000 annually, the present produce, according to
my calculation, being only 3 7s. per acre, or 169,000,000.
According to my annual produce of 11 15s. per acre, it would be
687,000,000;" and our intelligent and practical Alderman further
says, " This is no exaggeration, but a stern and humiliating fact."
It is an excellent lesson for sticklers for good old routine, to
cast their eyes over the surface of the island, and to note in how
many cases districts the most unpromising, and with the least
tractable soils, have been made models of agriculture, purely by
the removal of the original obstacles to cultivation. Look at the
vast Bedford Level. Its proprietors, undismayed by natural
difficulties, drained the marshes, and now the golden sheaves wave
far and wide over its once inhospitable swamps. Look again at the
cold clay lands of Norfolk, improved by enterprise and skill, till
the farming of Norfolk has become conspicuous in the history of our
national agriculture. So in general with the northern and southern
ends of the island. The bleak border counties are amongst the best
cultivated in the kingdom. In Ross-shire the white crops rival, and
often surpass, in weight and quality, the harvests of Devon and
Somersetshire. Still farther north, along the bleak coasts14
SCOTLAND COMPARED WITH ENGLAND. of Sutherland and Caithness, the
quantity and quality of barley and turnips, and even in the most
northerly districts, of oats, will well bear comparison with the
growths of regions immeasurab...
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