Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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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