| Description | An exceedingly frank and candid analysis (18pp.) of the situation as it stood, and bold suggestions for development. It surveys the reactions upon agriculture of the great advances in science and industry, and points out how the improved education of the neighbourhood would benefit the interest both of landowner and tenants. There runs through this Report a certain fresh independence of mind that is only too rare in such documents. The "Colonel Hughes" of the Report is Col. W. L. Hughes, who succeeded to the estate at the death of his father in 1815. |