[483] Johnstone, Account of Elkington's Draining (1797), pp. 8-9.
[484] R.A.S.E. Journal (1894), p. 11, from which this account of Bakewell is mainly taken.
[485] According to some, Joseph Allom originated the breed, and Bakewell vastly improved it. We may safely give the chief credit to so careful and gifted a breeder as Bakewell.
[486] Culley on Live Stock (1807), p. 56.
[487] Marshall, Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, i. 273.
[488] Victoria County History: Warwickshire, Agriculture.
[489] In Lancashire at this date it was not uncommon, when a tenant wished for his farm or a particular field to be improved by draining, marling, liming, or laying down to grass, to hand it over to the landlord for the process; who, when completed, returned it to the tenant with an advanced rent of 10 per cent. upon the improvements.—Marshall, Review of Reports to Board of Agriculture (under Lancashire).
[490] 1820, p. 173 et seq.
[491] See Hasbach, op. cit. pp. 77 sq.; Annals of Agriculture, xxxvi. 497; Scrutton, Commons and Common Fields, p. 139.
[492] Defoe, Tour, ii. 178 et seq.