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vibram five fingers The whole machinery was formed on the principle of avoiding anything like an inquisition into private affairs. He would describe the process. When he had succeeded in making up a list of all the farmers in Scotland, or he would say, all the farmers and occupants of land in the county of Ayr, every one of these would receive a printed schedule. They would be put to no expense in the matter; all they had to attend to was to fill it up as speedily as possible, and return it to him. vibram five fingers shoes The schedule would not inquire how many bolls of wheat, or how many tons of potatoes they bad laised within the year, nor anything that could bear on taxation. He asked A B what was the total acreage of his land; how many acres he hsd in wheat, how many in barley, oats, beans, peas, potatoes, and so on. Beyond that no question was put to any farmer, and even that was not published; it came to him confidentially. vibram fivefingers They Wctc also asked to state the number of their horses, cattle, and sheep, subdivided so as to let them know what was breeding -and what was feeding stock; bnt without putting any question to any sheep farmer as to how much wool, or how many lambs, he had in the year. These were the only questions that would five fingers shoes be asked of individual farmers, and the answers were to be sent to the Highland Society's Office, addressed to him, and he would treat them as quite confidential; no official but himself would be aware of their contents. In the trials of last year the schedules were collected by officers in each district; but it was found to be laborious process, and moreover the farmers were aa willing to send the information direct to himself. vibram five fingers sale Accordingly, this year they just sent a schedule to each farmer to nil up, askiug how many acres wheat he has, how many acres potatoes, and so on, for the purpose of making an estimate of the produce. He took this county aud parcelled it out into districts ; and, as an instance, he would take the parishes in Carrick district. He had a roll of all the farmers in these nine parishes, and from the whole returus, he ascertained that there were say 1,000 acres of wheat in that district. vibram five fingers kso Now all that came out to the public was, not that A B had so much, but that in that district there were 1,000 acres of wheat."Here, in our opinion—one we have repeatedly expressed in commenting on other systems suggested—all direct interrogatory to the farmer should stop. A knowledge of the breadth of land sown with any particular crop is the great point to be arrived at. Many are the methods for proceeding after this. Farmers are to strike their own averages—paid commissioners are to travel the country, and so on. Mr. Maxwell, without going quite directly to him, would still make the fanner his chief, if not his only agent. We must confess that, for general use, we cannot but consider this the least promising part of his machinery. It is not all who will share the enthusiasm of the director." They would have a committee in the Carrick districttaking it as an instance—that committee consisting of one or more farmers from each parish. That committee would bare a convener called the enumerator. It would be the doty of that committee, before and during harvest, to keep their eyes upon the crops in their respective parishes, and to hear what the opinions of their neighbours were on the subject. After thrashing began, the enumerator would call a meeting of the committee at a convenient time. As every gentleman came with his note, they would consider and decide how many bushels of wheat per acre weight; and the enumerator would transmit the result to him.