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on Saturday afternoons; some at steer guiding the plough & others assist at harvesting. From observations I made in various parts of England & Scotland, I have arrived at the conclusion that what in Australia we describe as "permanent lan improvements" on land are greatly neglected here. The farmhouses, barns barnhouses & stables are mostly tumbledown tumbling down, & some of them, being centuries old, present the appearance an aspect of the utmost neglect & desolation. & I think I can trace this neglect to a definite origin - the English leasehold. Freehold begets in the possessor thereof the incentive to improve his land; but in England freeholds are very costly & difficult to secure secure. The English farmer is a more cautious & calculating individual