[645] Cobden's Speech, March 12, 1844.
[646] Mr. Pusey, one of the best informed agriculturists of the day, estimated the produce of wheat per acre in 1840 at 26 bushels.—R.A.S.E. Journal, 1890, p. 20.
[647] Caird, English Farming in 1850-1, p. 474.
[648] Progress of the Nation.
[649] Thorold Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, v. 29.
[650] Progress of the Nation, pp. 137-9.
[651] Yet as the growth of population overtakes the corn and meat supply, these prophets may in the end prove correct.
[652] The Great Exhibition of 1851 was said to have widely diffused the use of improved implements.—R.A.S.E. Journal, 1856, p. 54.
[653] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1890, p. 34.
[654] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1856, p. 60.