General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture.
- John Bailey
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAP. IV. AlODE OF OCCUPATION. SECT. I. SIZE OF FARMS. ON the large estates, there are some farms from 100/. to 150/. a year, few reach 200/. and we only heard of four or five, that got as high as 3 or 400/. a year, and one of 600/.; but the most general size of farms in this coun- ty, is from 15/. to 50/. a year. Cumberland farmers may be divided into tliree classes: thq, occupiers of large farms; the small proprietors (provlnclally “ lairds^* or “ statesmen” and the small farmers. It is to the first class, and the gentlemen farmers, that this district owes the introdu^lion of any of the modern Improvements in agriculture; and we were glad to find a spirit of enterprize arising amongst them, for the adop- tion of new modes of culture, and improved breeds of stock. To the small ProprletTiSy Agriculture, we presume. Is little indebted for Its advancement: these “ statesmen” seem to inherit with the estates of their ancestors, their notions of cultivating them, and are almost as much at- tached to the one as the other : they are rarely aspiring, and seem content with their situation, nor is luxury in any shape an object of their desires; their little estates, wliich they cultivate with their own hands, produce al- CUM13.] p most](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037949_0261.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
