Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, M. P., Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Field, Garden, or Cottage Allotment System: As a Means for Alleviating the Distresses of the Poor, Diminishing Poor Rates and County Rates, Benefitting the Agriculturist, the Manufacturer, and the Mine Owner, and Improving the Finances of the Country Though human sagacity can devise no perfect plan, still there are some which, more than others, tend. In their nature to the removal of evils, and the introduction of what is better in their place. Is the impossibility of doing good by the plan proposed insisted on? Facts surround us to disprove such asser tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.