English Rural Land Questions

THE prophet who, in the second decade of the twentieth century, traces in outline the future history of English agriculture, and attempts to mark the main directions along which the land system of this country will develop, may, with more precision than belongs to most cautious horoscopes, venture on two positive assertions.The one is that a noticeable change is likely to occur, or is even now proceeding, in the mutual relations of the ownership and the occupancy of land, and in their separate characters.The second, which has its connection with the first, is that in a fuller degree than heretofore scientific study will be given, and inventive genius applied, to cultivation; and that the various parts of the complex business of raising and selling produce, which will be more minutely subdivided, are destined to become methodically organised, and in the process to be improved.In both respects tolerably plain signs can be now discovered of a movement, which may reach the bulk, and earn the name, of a " revolution

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