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P.S. I yesterday inquired of a carpenter, whose main 

 business consists in making farm-gates, &c>, the value of such 

 wood as I described for cattle-boxes. He replied, that he 

 had been employed to make them, and would readily undertake 

 to erect any number at 30s. each. He also observed that 

 rafters for sills, ties and posts, could be purchased, according to 

 quality and length, at from 6d. to Sd. per foot, timber measure, 

 that is to say, a post six feet long and six inches square would 

 cost nine -pence or a shilling. 



No. XVII. 



SIR, 



THE season for sowing flax and peas being at hand, the 

 1 7th Number of my Series will, I doubt not, obtain a ready 

 insertion in your Journal, as well as in every other professing 

 to advocate the interests of agriculture. 



My former letters were unavoidably argumentative and 

 controversial ; but as the soundness of my propositions is esta- 

 blished beyond dispute, and opposition vanquished, I can add 

 to the present address the charm of brevity. Of ultimate 

 success I have ever felt confident. To the Report of the 

 National Flax and Agricultural Improvement Association I 

 refer with unfeigned satisfaction, as a confirmation of all that I 

 have advanced during the past five years ; and as the most im- 

 portant document yet published upon the subject of flax. 



I now desire to draw attention to the sowing of flax and 

 peas, because the straw of the latter incorporated with the seed 

 of the former will render the farmer not only independent of 

 foreign resources to fatten his cattle, but mainly, also, of the 

 precarious and expensive turnip-crop. 



It will be remembered by those who are conversant with this 

 Series, that my assertions were invariably supported by proof. 

 I will now narrate the result of the system of grazing upon my 

 premises described in No. XV. 



Purchased, on the 27th of July last, seven eighteen-months 

 old bullocks, at 6/. each, of Mr. Wright, farmer and cattle- 



