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the cultivation of half an acre of land.* Those
who will not adopt this system, have eyes and
will not see, and ears and will not hear. The
worthy Rector here very justly remarks, that
great benefit was derived from these provisions ;
and adds, that it did not at all interfere with the
poor man's labour for the farmer. His extra
hours and half days, when his labour could be
spared, gave the poor man ample time for the cul-
tivation of his little potatoe garden, which always
ensured the following year a good crop of wheat.
This letter to the Earl of Salisbury, to which
we are indebted for so much useful knowledge on
this interesting subject, affords many further
proofs of the great benefit which the poor derive
from this mode of encouragement, which may be
obtained at a much lower price than by any
other means of assistance, Mr. Demainbray is
supported by stubborn facts which cannot be
contradicted. A report has lately been received
by the Society for the Labouring Poor, from a
parish in Essex, of such a satisfactory convincing
nature, that I cannot refrain from mentioning it.
In the month of April last, the Lord of the
Manor of Kelvedon Hatch, at the solicitation of
* An account given in the last, No. 10, of the Labourers'
Friends' Society, which must be relied on as given by the most
unquestionable authority, Sir William Pulteney, Bart. of Wilts.
This was chiefly the work of a woman, who obtained fifteen
Winchester bushels on thirty-four rods of land not one quarter
of an acre.