Certainly, no equal space could present a less quantity of waste land, or occupy less in hedges or fences.

And it is equally certain that no estate of equal size is more highly cultivated, or yields a greater amount of production per acre.

Its occupant, also, is what may be called an hereditary farmer.

His father and his remote ancestors were farmers, and he, as in the case of the late Mr.Webb, has attained to his present position as an agriculturist by practical farming.
Mr.Jonas cultivates his land on the "Four-course system." This very term indicates the degree to which English agriculture has been reduced to a precise and rigid science.

It means here, that the whole arable extent of his estate is divided equally between four great crops; or, wheat, 750 acres; barley and oats, 750; seeds and pulse, 750; and roots, 750.