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ing, and placing his agricultural concerns un- 

 der his direction. By this means such a farm 

 as that of Mr Marx might soon be advanced 

 in productiveness to an amount greatly beyond 

 the salary of such a manager, and an improved 

 and advantageous practice of husbandry would 

 spread itself and take the place of the defec- 

 tive and comparatively profitless system now 

 followed in the States. 



I was glad to find Mr Marx not obstinate- 

 ly wedded to old modes ; for hi the discus- 

 sions on agricultural subjects I had with him 

 and his brother after dinner at their country 

 house, I was able so far to convince him of the 

 benefit he would reap from a change of system, 

 that he resolved to give a fair trial to what I 

 suggested, and instead of ploughing in his lux- 

 uriant crops of clover, to use them in soiling 

 his horses and cattle, to cart out the manure 

 to be so obtained for his wheat, and to en- 

 crease his allowance of seed to four bushels an 

 acre, the usual quantity given by British farm- 

 ers. 



I can have no doubt of the favourable re- 



