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must be added to each box, one of which is to move on hinges, 

 and the other to be secured to the top and bottom sills of the 

 building, so as to be taken down at pleasure. Presuming that 

 advantage has been taken of a barn or other walls on farm 

 premises, the external part is finished. The internal has 

 merely to be parted off with a few poles between each bullock, 

 and the passage separated by the cribs, which are to move up 

 and down between the interior posts which are placed upon the 

 angles of each box, and support the roof on the passage side." 



Now, Mr. Editor, I will proceed to animadvert upon Mr. 

 Taylor's comparison between flax and the Gold of Pleasure, 

 contained in your Journal of the 28th of October. In so doing, 

 I must exercise a more than ordinary caution ; because an 

 action was brought against me, in consequence of a former 

 attempt to convince the " British Farmer" that no flax could 

 be obtained from the stalks of the Camelina sativa, nor food, 

 adapted to the fattening of cattle, from the seed. 



As, however, my opinion remains unaltered, I will subjoin a 

 copy of my defence, which, I trust, will answer the double pur- 

 pose of expressing my sentiments of the attempt to under- 

 rate the value of the flax crop, and of protecting myself 

 against a second prosecution : a defence that was exacted 

 by Mr. Taylor's solicitor, and which I wrote under the 

 supposition of its being published in vindication of his client's 

 character. 



Trimingham, February 13th, 1844. 

 " Sir, 



" I much regret your not having applied to me for an 

 explanation relative to my comments on the Gold of Pleasure, 

 in the first instance, rather than through a solicitor. Most 

 readily would I have given it ; and at the same time have 

 exonerated you from any wilful attempt to impose upon the 

 public. 



" The subject was first introduced to me by Mr. Haynes, to 

 whom reference is made, in what I presume to be your circular, 



